List of common household pests
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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.
Mammals
Invertebrates
- Ants
- Argentine ants
- Carpenter ants
- Fire ants
- Odorous house ants
- Pharaoh ants
- Thief ants
- Bed bugs{{cite web|url=https://www.epa.gov/bedbugs|title=Bed Bugs - US EPA|first=US|last=EPA,OCSPP,OPP,RD|website=US EPA|date=4 March 2013}}
- Beetles
- Woodworms
- Death watch beetles
- Furniture beetles
- Weevils
- Maize weevil
- Rice weevil
- Carpet beetles
- Fur beetles
- Varied carpet beetles
- Spider beetles
- Mealworm beetles
- Centipedes
- House centipedes
- Cockroaches
- Brown-banded cockroaches
- German cockroaches
- American cockroaches
- Oriental cockroaches
- Dust mites{{Cite web|url=https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/mites/house-dust-mites/|title=House Dust Mite Pest Control - Management & Information}}
- Earwigs
- Crickets
- House crickets
- Firebrats
- Flies
- Bottle flies
- Blue bottle flies
- Green bottle flies
- House flies
- Fruit flies
- Mosquitoes
- Moths
- Almond moths
- Indianmeal moths
- Clothes moths
- Common clothes moths
- Brown house moths
- Paper Lice
- Red spiders
- Silverfish
- Spiders
- Termites{{cite web|url=https://portal.nifa.usda.gov/web/crisprojectpages/0187688-household-pest-management.html|title=Household pest management - UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA|website=portal.nifa.usda.gov}}
- Dampwood termites
- Subterranean termites
- Woodlouse