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 Mice Field mice House mice Possums Brushtail possum Ringtail possum Rats Black rats Brown rats Wood rats Cotton rats
Invertebrates Ants Argentine ants Carpenter ants Fire ants Odorous house ants Pharaoh ants Thief ants Bed bugs 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 Earwigs Crickets House crickets Firebrats Flies Bottle flies Blue bottle flies Green bottle flies House flies Fruit flies Drain flies Phorid flies Gnats (Fungus gnats) Mosquitoes Moths Almond moths Indianmeal moths Clothes moths Common clothes moths Brown house moths Paper Lice Red spiders Silverfish Spiders Termites Dampwood termites Subterranean termites Woodlouse
See also Home-stored product entomology List of notifiable diseases Noxious weed Pest (organism)
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