List of common household pests explained

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.

Mammals

• Mice
  • Field mice
  • House mice
• Possums
  • Brushtail possum
  • Ringtail possum
• 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^[1]
• Beetles
  • Woodworms
    • Death watch beetles
    • Furniture beetles
  • Weevils
    • Maize weevil
    • Rice weevil
  • Carpet beetles
    • Fur beetles
    • Varied carpet beetles
  • Spider beetles
  • Mealworm beetles
• Centipedes
  • House centipedes
• Cockroaches
  • Brown-banded cockroaches
  • German cockroaches
  • American cockroaches
  • Oriental cockroaches
• Dust mites^[2]
• Earwigs
• Crickets
  • House crickets
• Flies
  • Bottle flies
    • Blue bottle flies
    • Green bottle flies
  • House flies
  • Fruit flies
• Mosquitoes
• Moths
  • Almond moths
  • Indianmeal moths
  • Clothes moths
    • Common clothes moths
    • Brown house moths
• Paper Lice
• Red spiders
• Silverfish
• Spiders
• Termites^[3]
  • Dampwood termites
  • Subterranean termites
• Woodlouse

See also

• Home-stored product entomology
• List of notifiable diseases
• Noxious weed
• Pest (organism)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bed Bugs - US EPA. US. EPA,OCSPP,OPP,RD. US EPA. 4 March 2013.
2. Web site: House Dust Mite Pest Control - Management & Information.
3. Web site: Household pest management - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA. portal.nifa.usda.gov.