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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]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.
“Insects and other arthropods that are associated with live Christmas trees cannot survive indoors,” says Michael Skvarla, PhD, assistant research professor of arthropod identification, Penn ...
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The true bugs, Hemiptera, have piercing and sucking mouthparts and live by sucking sap from plants. These include aphids , whiteflies and scale insects . Apart from weakening the plant, they encourage the growth of sooty mould on the honeydew the insects produce, which cuts out the light and reduces photosynthesis, stunting the plant's growth.
House flies. The house fly is the most common kind of fly found in homes.. While house flies only live up to 25 days, they reproduce fast and carry diseases, according to Direct Hit Pest Control.
Monochamus scutellatus, commonly known as the white-spotted sawyer or spruce sawyer or spruce bug or a hair-eater, [1] is a common wood-boring beetle found throughout North America. [2] It is a species native to North America.
The boxelder bug (Boisea trivittata), also called box bug, maple bug or, inaccurately, box beetle, is a species of true bug native to eastern North America. The western boxelder bug Boisea rubrolineata is a relative of this species and is native to western North America. Boxelder bugs are found primarily on boxelder trees, as well as on maple ...
Native to the U.S., boxelder bugs sometimes become a nuisance for homeowners in the fall. “They are relatives of stink bugs,” says Matt Bertone, PhD, director of the Plant and Disease Insect ...