Current insect issues

• Plum cuculios

• Root maggots (onion and cabbage)

• Slugs

• Spinach leafminers

• Spittlebugs

• Squash bugs

Yards

• Ants in lawns

• Aphids

• Ash leafcurl aphids

• Ash plant bugs

• Ash sawflies

• Birch leafminers

• Cankerworms

• Dogwood sawflies

• Eastern tent caterpillars

• Elm leaf beetles

• Emerald ash borers (currently only confirmed in Hennepin, Ramsey, Houston and Winona counties)

• European elm flea weevil

• European pine sawflies

• Forest tent caterpillars

• Galls, insects and mites

• Honeylocust plant bugs

• Imported willow leaf beetles

• Lace bugs

• Introduced pine sawflies

• Maple petiole borers

• Oystershell scales

• Pine needle scales

• Roseslugs

• Spiny elm caterpillars

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)

• American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

• Mosquitoes (starting late May or early June)

Current Insects: April

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Be on the watch for these insect pests in April:

Insects in and around homes

Insects in Yards or Gardens

Gardens:

andrenid bees
common asparagus beetles
iris borers (eggs can hatch late April - early May)
root maggots (adults are active late April or early May)

Yards:

clover mites
eastern tent caterpillars (eggs hatch late April - early May)
nightcrawlers

Insects that bite or sting

Current Insects: March

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Be on the watch for these insects in March

Insects in and around homes

• Cluster fly

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

• Sowbugs

Insects in the Landscape

• Snow fleas

• Winter cutworms

Insects that bite or sting

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

• Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks), they can be active when temps are in the 30o's F

Current Insects: February

2013-02-01T06:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in February

Insects in and around homes

• Bed bugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

• Spiders

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: January

2013-01-01T06:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in January

Insects in and around homes

• Bed bugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

• Spiders

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: December

2012-12-01T06:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in December

Insects in and around homes

• Bed bugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

• Spiders

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: November

2012-11-01T05:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in November

Insects in and around homes

• Sowbugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Social wasps (i.e. yellowjackets, paper wasps)

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Curent Insects: October

2012-10-01T05:00:03Z

Be on the watch for these insects in October

Insects in and around homes

• Social wasps (i.e. yellowjackets, paper wasps)

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Sowbugs

• Ants

° cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, field, acrobat,

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

• Blow flies

• Springtails

• House centipede

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Apple maggot damage

• Slugs

• Tobacco budworms (also known as geranium budworms)

Yards

• Birch catkin feeders

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: September

2012-09-01T05:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in September

Insects in and around homes

Ants:

Social wasps (i.e. yellowjackets, paper wasps)
Boxelder bugs
Multicolored Asian lady beetles
Cluster flies
Fruit flies
Spiders
Stored product insects:

Cockroaches:

German, brownbanded, American, Oriental
woods (may be found indoors or outside in wooded areas)

Foreign grain beetles (very common in newly constructed homes)
House flies
Blow flies
Ground beetles
Millipedes
Sowbugs
Springtails
Hackberry psyllids
Western conifer seed bugs
Masked hunters
House centipedes
Pseudoscorpions
Larder beetles
Carpet beetles
Houseplant insects

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

Apple maggots
Common asparagus beetles
Bean leaf beetles
Black and yellow argiope spider
Black swallowtail caterpillar
Cabbageworms
Colorado potato beetles
Cutworms
Earwigs
Japanese beetles
Flea beetles
Iris borers
Northern corn rootworms
Slugs
Soldier beetles
Striped cucumber beetles
Solitary wasps (including cicada killers)
Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)
Squash bugs
Tobacco budworm (also known as geranium budworm)

Yards

Insects that bite or sting

Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)
American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)
Bed bugs
Mosquitoes
Stable flies
Black flies
Head lice
Fleas

Current Insects: August

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Be on the watch for these insects in August

Insects in and around homes

Ants

Wasps

social
solitary (including cicada killers)

Indianmeal moths
flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

Cockroaches

German, brownbanded, American, Oriental
woods (may be found indoors or outside in wooded areas)

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

Aphids
Apple maggots
Argiope spiders
Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)
Bean leaf beetles
Black swallowtail caterpillar
Cabbageworms
Colorado potato beetles
Cutworms
Earwigs
Flea beetles
Iris borers
Japanese beetles
Northern corn rootworms
Slugs
Soldier beetles
Squash bugs
Stalk borers
Striped cucumber beetles
Whitelined sphinx moth

Yards

Insects that bite or sting

Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)
American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)
Bed bugs
Mosquitoes
Stable flies
Deer flies
Black flies
Head lice
Fleas

Current Insects: July

2012-07-02T15:37:42Z

Be on the watch for these insects in July

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

° cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, false honey, field, acrobat

° swarmers: pavement, yellow, cornfield, field, odorous house, acrobat, thief

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Wasps

• Earwigs

• Spiders

• Masked hunter

• Cockroaches

° German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

° woods (may be found indoors or outside in wooded areas)

• House flies

• Blow flies

• Springtails

• Pseudoscorpions

• Northern fowl mites

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Apple maggots

• Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

• Bean leaf beetles

• Cabbageworms

• Colorado potato beetles

• Cutworms

• Earwigs

• False Japanese beetles

• Flea beetles

• Fourlined plant bugs (until early July)

• Japanese beetles

• Rose chafers

• Slugs

• Stalk borers

• Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)

• Squash bugs

• Striped cucumber beetles

Yards

• Ants in lawns

• Aphids, leafcurl ash

• Ash sawfly

• Dogwood sawflies

• Galls, insects and mites

• Honeylocust plant bugs

• Ichneumonid wasps

• Japanese beetles

• Lace bugs

• Lecanium scale (crawlers hatch June, July)

• Introduced pine sawflies

• Magnolia scale

• Mountain ash sawflies

• Pearslug

• Pine bark adelgid

• Pine tortoise scale

• Roseslugs

• Spiny elm caterpillar

• Viburnum borer

• Yellowheaded spruce sawflies

• Whitemarked tussock moth

Insects that bite or sting

• blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)

• American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)

• bed bugs

• mosquitoes

• black flies

• head lice

• fleas

Current Insects: June

2012-06-01T19:51:13Z

Be on the watch for these insects in June

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

° cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, false honey, field, acrobat

° swarmers (that is ants with wings): carpenter, pavement, yellow, false honey ant

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Wasps

• Cockroaches

° German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

° woods (may be found indoors or outside in wooded areas)

• house flies

• blow flies

• springtails

• house centipedes

• spiders

• pseudoscorpions

• northern fowl mites

• click beetles

• larder beetles

• carpet beetles

• houseplant insects

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• apple maggots (adults first appear in early July, prepare now)

• asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

• bean leaf beetles

• cabbageworms

• codling moths

• Colorado potato beetles

• cutworms

• flea beetles

• fourlined plant bugs

• iris borers

• root maggots (onion and cabbage)

• rose chafers

• slugs

• spittlebugs

• striped cucumber beetles

• squash bugs

Yards

• ants (field) in lawns

• ash leafcurl aphids

• ash plant bugs

• ash sawfly

• birch leafminers

• cankerworms (at the end of their feeding)

• dogwood sawflies

• eastern tent caterpillars (at the end of their feeding)

• elm leaf beetles

• European pine sawflies (at the end of their feeding)

• forest tent caterpillars (at the end of their feeding)

• galls, insects and mites

• honeylocust plant bugs

• ichneumonid wasps

• imported willow leaf beetles

• June beetles

• lace bugs

• lecanium scale (crawlers hatch June, July)

• introduced pine sawflies

• maple petiole borers

• mountain ash sawflies

• oystershell scales

• pearslug

• pine needle scales

• pine bark adelgid

• pine tortoise scale

• roseslugs

• spiny elm caterpillar

• viburnum borer (late June)

• yellowheaded spruce sawflies

• whitemarked tussock moth

Insects that bite or sting

• blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)

• American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)

• bed bugs

• mosquitoes

• black flies

• head lice

• fleas

Current Insects: May

2012-05-01T19:49:24Z

Be on the watch for these insects in May

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

° cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, false honey, field, acrobat

° swarmers: carpenter, pavement, yellow, false honey ant

• Stored product insects

° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Cockroaches

° German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

° woods (may be found indoors or outside in wooded areas)

• Wasps

• Spiders

• Larder beetles

• Clover mites

• Sowbugs

Insects in gardens and yards

(Note: Because of the early spring (despite the cold April), expect insect pests 2 - 4 weeks earlier than normal. E.g. forest tent caterpillars normally hatch from early to mid May and they stared hatching in some places in late April)

Gardens

• Andrenid bees

• Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

• Cabbageworms

• Codling moths

• Cutworms

• Flea beetles

• Fourlined plant bugs