List of common household pests

This is a List of household pests, animal species or genera that have a history of living in, or invading, human habitation and causing damage to structures, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors, or causing other threats.

Insects

• ants
  • Argentine ant
  • carpenter ant
  • fire ant
  • odorous house ant
  • pavement ant
  • pharaoh ant
  • thief ant
• bed bug
• bees
• cockroaches
  • brown-banded cockroach
  • German cockroach
  • Oriental cockroach
• carpet beetles
  • fur beetle
  • varied carpet beetle
• Centipede
• firebrats
• flea
• flies
  • blue bottle fly
  • green bottle fly
  • house fly
• fruit flies
• hornet
• house centipede
• lice
• moths
  • Almond Moth
  • Indianmeal Moth
• mealworm beetle
• red spiders
• silverfish
• spider beetle
• woodlouse
• termite
  • dampwood termite
  • subterranean termite
• wasp
• woolly bear
• woodworms
  • death watch beetle
  • furniture beetle
• weevil

Mammals

• rodents
  • mice
  • rats
  • chipmunks
  • gophers
  • beavers
• shrew
• moles
• opossums
• raccoons
• hedgehogs

Reptiles

Lizards Snakes

See also

• Pest (organism)

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