← Pest Organisms

Year Round Indoor / season

9 entr(ies)

American Cockroach
A large, reddish-brown cockroach that lives mostly in warm, damp places like sewers, drains, and basements, wandering indoors in search of food, water, or shelter from harsh weather.
Bed Bug
A small, flat, reddish-brown blood-feeding insect that hides in beds, furniture, and cracks near where people sleep and feeds on human blood at night.
Brown Dog Tick
A reddish-brown three-host tick that strongly prefers dogs as its host and is unusual in being able to complete its entire life cycle indoors, infesting homes and kennels.
Brown-banded Cockroach
A small indoor cockroach that favors warm, dry, elevated spots throughout a building, named for the pale bands across its wings and abdomen.
Cat Flea
A tiny, wingless, blood-feeding insect that is the flea most often found on pet cats and dogs in U.S. homes, biting both animals and people and breeding in carpets, bedding, and pet resting areas.
Drain Fly
A small, fuzzy moth-like fly whose larvae develop in the organic film inside drains, sewers, and standing water; the adult is a harmless nuisance and the larva is a beneficial decomposer.
Fruit Fly
A tiny tan-to-brown fly with red eyes that breeds in overripe, fermenting, or damaged fruit and the moist residue in drains, found around kitchen counters and trash.
German Cockroach
A small indoor cockroach found worldwide in association with humans, living near food, water, and warmth in kitchens, bathrooms, restaurants, and food-storage areas.
House Mouse
A small, gray-brown commensal rodent that lives in close association with people, nesting in walls, appliances, and stored goods, and known for droppings, gnaw marks, and a musky odor.