← Pest Organisms

Monitoring / management_approach

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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 Marmorated Stink Bug
A shield-shaped, mottled-brown invasive stink bug from East Asia that crowds into homes in fall to overwinter and releases a foul odor when disturbed, but does not bite, breed indoors, or damage the structure.
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.
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 Fly
A gray, four-striped filth fly that breeds in manure, garbage, and decaying matter and contaminates food and surfaces by carrying germs on its body and in its saliva and droppings.
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.
Oriental Cockroach
A large, dark, slow-moving cockroach that favors cool, damp places like basements, drains, crawl spaces, and outdoor foundation areas, and is often called a "waterbug."