October, 2007

Current Insect Pests

Be on the watch for these insects in October:

• Insects in and around homes

  • multicolored Asian lady beetles
  • boxelder bugs
  • ants
    • carpenter
    • acrobat, cornfield, field, odorous house, pavement, pharoah, thief, yellow
  • wasps
    • social
    • solitary
  • western conifer seed bugs
  • hackberry psyllids
  • spiders
  • centipedes
  • birch catkin feeders
  • masked hunters
  • millipedes
  • stored product insects
    • Indianmeal moths
    • beetles: flour, sawtoothed, grain, cigarette, drugstore and others
  • cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental
  • Pennsylvania wood cockroaches (found indoors or outside in wooded areas)
  • springtails
  • pseudoscorpions
  • ground beetles
  • carpet beetles
  • fruit flies
  • phorid flies
  • fungus gnats
  • longhorn beetles
  • metallic wood boring beetles
  • houseplant insects

  Insects in Yards or Gardens

• Gardens:
  • apple maggot damage
  • black and yellow argiope spider
  • iris borers

 

• Yards:

• birch catkin feeders
• black willow aphids
• caterpillars

• Insects that bite or sting

• blacklegged ticks (formerly known as deer ticks) - active down to 38°F
• bed bugs
• fleas
• head lice