# Pest Library Look up common household pests. How to identify them, the signs of an infestation, and when it's time to call a pro. Filter Type All types Category All categories [Clear](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library) Display # 24 [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/aedes-mosquitoes)## [Aedes Mosquitoes](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/aedes-mosquitoes) Mosquitoes The day-biting mosquitoes behind dengue and Zika. They breed in containers, and the eggs survive months on a dry rim. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/aedes-mosquitoes) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/american-dog-tick)## [American Dog Tick](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/american-dog-tick) Ticks One of the main U.S. carriers of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Look for the mottled off-white shield behind the head. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/american-dog-tick) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/american-smokybrown-cockroaches)## [American/Smokybrown Cockroaches](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/american-smokybrown-cockroaches) Cockroaches Two big dark roaches that share a habit. Both live outdoors and come inside, unlike the German cockroach. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/american-smokybrown-cockroaches) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/anopheles-mosquitoes)## [Anopheles Mosquitoes](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/anopheles-mosquitoes) Mosquitoes The malaria genus. It rests at a steep head-down angle rather than parallel to the surface. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/anopheles-mosquitoes) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/bed-bugs)## [Bed Bugs](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/bed-bugs) Bed Bugs Bed bugs feed on blood, hide within a few feet of where you sleep, and fit into a crack no wider than a toothpick. They do not spread disease, and they have nothing to do with how clean your home is. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/bed-bugs) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/black-widow-spiders)## [Black Widow Spiders](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/black-widow-spiders) Spiders Venomous, and far less dangerous than its reputation. The red hourglass is not always an hourglass and not always complete. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/black-widow-spiders) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/blacklegged-tick)## [Blacklegged Tick (Deer Tick)](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/blacklegged-tick) Ticks The tick behind most Lyme disease in the Northeast. Adults are active October through May, not in summer. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/blacklegged-tick) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/brown-recluse-spiders)## [Brown Recluse Spiders](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/brown-recluse-spiders) Spiders Six eyes in three pairs, not eight. The most misdiagnosed spider in America, and absent from most of it. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/brown-recluse-spiders) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/carpenter-ants)## [Carpenter Ants](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/carpenter-ants) Ants Large black or red-and-black ants that hollow out damp wood to nest. They do not eat it, so what you find is sawdust rather than missing wood. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/carpenter-ants) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/carpenter-bees)## [Carpenter Bees](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/carpenter-bees) Stinging Insects The big black bee that charges your head cannot sting you. It bores round holes in bare wood to nest. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/carpenter-bees) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/culex-mosquitoes)## [Culex Mosquitoes](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/culex-mosquitoes) Mosquitoes The West Nile virus mosquito. It breeds in stagnant, often dirty water rather than the clean containers Aedes wants. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/culex-mosquitoes) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/eastern-subterranean-termites)## [Eastern Subterranean Termites](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/eastern-subterranean-termites) Termites Almost every termite page on the internet quotes the same annual damage figure. That figure traces to no primary source, not even in the university extension publications that print it. The best-sourced estimate is a 2012 review in *Annual Review of Entomology* by Rust and Su, which put the worldwide cost of termite control and repair near $40 billion a year, roughly half of that in the United States, with subterranean termites responsible for about 80 percent of it. That number was built backward from termiticide sales, multiplied by a repair-to-control ratio borrowed from Formosan termite work in New Orleans. Nobody has actually measured it. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a measurement, and be skeptical of anyone who quotes you a damage total to the dollar. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/eastern-subterranean-termites) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/fire-ants)## [Fire Ants](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/fire-ants) Ants A stinging ant whose mound has no opening. They come and go through tunnels that surface somewhere else. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/fire-ants) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/fleas)## [Fleas](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/fleas) Fleas The fleas on the pet are the small end of it. Most of an infestation is eggs and larvae in the carpet. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/fleas) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/formosan-termites)## [Formosan Termites](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/formosan-termites) Termites The super termite, and the nickname is earned. A colony can run about ten times larger than a native one. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/formosan-termites) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/german-cockroaches)## [German Cockroaches](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/german-cockroaches) Cockroaches One egg case releases up to 40 nymphs, and a single mated female can put thousands of offspring into a building in under a year. This is the one cockroach that does not live outdoors at all, so if it is inside, it is breeding inside. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/german-cockroaches) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/house-mouse)## [House Mouse](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/house-mouse) Rodents It fits through a quarter-inch gap, nests within 30 feet of its food, and has five to ten litters a year. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/house-mouse) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/lone-star-tick)## [Lone Star Tick](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/lone-star-tick) Ticks The tick behind the red meat allergy. The female carries a single white dot, and it moves toward a host. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/lone-star-tick) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/mosquitoes)## [Mosquitoes](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/mosquitoes) Mosquitoes Three of the four life stages happen in water. Tipping out standing water is the cheapest control there is. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/mosquitoes) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/norway-rats)## [Norway Rats](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/norway-rats) Rodents It digs at ground level. Burrows along foundations and holes in the yard separate it from the roof rat. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/norway-rats) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/odorous-house-ants)## [Odorous House Ants](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/odorous-house-ants) Ants Crush one and smell it. That is the whole identification, though the smell is not really coconut. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/odorous-house-ants) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/roof-rats)## [Roof Rats](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/roof-rats) Rodents It rarely burrows. It climbs a tree, crosses a branch to the roof, and moves in above your ceiling. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/roof-rats) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/stink-bugs)## [Stink Bugs](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/stink-bugs) Occasional Invaders It does not live in your house, it hides there. It flew in last autumn and eats nothing all winter. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/stink-bugs) [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/ticks)## [Ticks](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/ticks) Ticks Arachnids, not insects. Tick season is not summer, and most people protect themselves for the wrong half of the year. [Identify This Pest](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library/ticks) Page 1 of 2 - - - - - [1](#) - [ 2 ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library?start=24) - - [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library?start=24) - - [ ](https://hollomanexterminators.com/pest-library?start=24)