List of common household pests

The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect.^[1]

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^[2]
• 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^[3]
• Earwigs
• Crickets
  • House crickets
• Firebrats
• Flies
  • Bottle flies
    • Blue bottle flies
    • Green bottle flies
  • House flies^[1]
  • Fruit flies
• Mosquitoes
• Moths
  • Almond moths
  • Indianmeal moths
  • Clothes moths
    • Common clothes moths
    • Brown house moths
• Paper Lice
• Red spiders
• Silverfish
• Spiders
• Termites^[4]
  • Dampwood termites
  • Subterranean termites
• Woodlouse

See also

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

References

1. Hewitt, C. Gordon (1914), The House-fly, Cambridge University Press
2. EPA,OCSPP,OPP,RD, US (4 March 2013). "Bed Bugs - US EPA". US EPA.
3. "House Dust Mite Pest Control - Management & Information".
4. "Household pest management - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA". portal.nifa.usda.gov.