List of common household pests
This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.
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The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect.[1]
Mammals
- Mice
- Field mice
- House mice
- Rats
- Black rats
- Brown rats
- Wood rats
- Cotton rats
Invertebrates
- Ants
- Argentine ants
- Carpenter ants
- Fire ants
- Odorous house ants
- Pharaoh ants
- Thief ants
- Bed bugs[2]
- Beetles
- Woodworms
- Death watch beetles
- Furniture beetles
- Weevils
- Carpet beetles
- Fur beetles
- Varied carpet beetles
- Spider beetles
- Mealworm beetles
- Woodworms
- Centipedes
- Cockroaches
- Dust mites[3]
- Earwigs
- Crickets
- Flies
- Bottle flies
- Blue bottle flies
- Green bottle flies
- House flies[1]
- Fruit flies
- Bottle flies
- Mosquitoes
- Moths
- Almond moths
- Indianmeal moths
- Clothes moths
- Gypsy moths
- Common clothes moths
- Brown house moths
- Paper Lice
- Red spiders
- Silverfish
- Spiders[4]
- Termites[5]
- Dampwood termites
- Subterranean termites
- Woodlice
References
- Hewitt, C. Gordon (1914), The House-fly, Cambridge University Press
- EPA,OCSPP,OPP,RD, US. "Bed Bugs - US EPA". US EPA.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/mites/house-dust-mites/
- "Orkin Termite Treatment, Pest Control & Exterminator Service". Orkin.com. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
- "Household pest management - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA". portal.nifa.usda.gov.
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