Bugs in Alaska

566 bugs with full pages have records in Alaska. House pests come first, then the bugs people report most.

House and yard pests in Alaska

Bark Lice, Book Lice, and Parasitic LicePsocopteraCan damage your homeThripsThysanopteraCan biteWestern Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingPseudoscorpionsPseudoscorpionesHarmlessBald-faced HornetDolichovespula maculataCan stingInland Floodwater MosquitoAedes vexansCan spread germs or diseaseLarder BeetleDermestes lardariusCan damage your homeBarn Funnel WeaverTegenaria domesticaCan biteBrown Dog TickRhipicephalus sanguineusCan spread germs or diseaseSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataBlue BlowflyCalliphora vicinaCan spread germs or diseaseConvergent Lady BeetleHippodamia convergensCan biteCross OrbweaverAraneus diadematusCan biteSawtoothed Grain BeetleOryzaephilus surinamensisCan biteCommon Rough WoodlousePorcellio scaberDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Shiny WoodlouseOniscus asellusHarmlessDrugstore BeetleStegobium paniceumCan damage your homeCommon Bed BugCimex lectulariusCan biteHide BeetleDermestes maculatusCan damage your homeAmerican Dog TickDermacentor variabilisCan spread germs or diseaseFurrow OrbweaverLarinioides cornutusCan biteWestern Black Carpenter AntCamponotus modocCan damage your homeGerman CockroachBlattella germanicaCan spread germs or diseaseWinter Marsh MosquitoCuliseta inornataCan bite

Other bugs seen in Alaska

Yellow-fronted Bumble BeeBombus flavifronsFuzzy-Horned Bumble BeeBombus mixtusHeath Bumble BeeBombus jonellusForest Bumble BeeBombus sylvicolaFrigid bumble beeBombus frigidusBlack-tailed Bumble BeeBombus melanopygusUpland BlackclockPterostichus adstrictusVancouver Bumble BeeBombus vancouverensisTurnip MaggotDelia floralisArctic FritillaryBoloria charicleaSnow MosquitoAedes communisWhite-veined ArcticOeneis boreMargined WhitePieris marginalisFreija FritillaryBoloria freijaArctic RingletErebia disaCryptic Bumble BeeBombus cryptarumRoss's AlpineErebia rossiiCarabus truncaticollisCarabus truncaticollisNarrow-collared Snail-eating BeetleScaphinotus angusticollisPerplexing Bumble BeeBombus perplexusMoorland Clouded YellowColias palaenoHercules Carpenter AntCamponotus herculeanusCan damage your homeBanded AlpineErebia fasciataMargined Snail-eating BeetleScaphinotus marginatusHecla SulphurColias heclaMigratory GrasshopperMelanoplus sanguinipesAlaskan FritillaryBoloria alaskensisAnnulate Masked BeeHylaeus annulatusAedes punctorAedes punctorCan spread germs or diseaseOld World SwallowtailPapilio machaonPterostichus crenicollisPterostichus crenicollisWestern Bumble BeeBombus occidentalisSilvery BlueGlaucopsyche lygdamusCalathus advenaCalathus advenaWestern WhitePontia occidentalisWoodland snowmelt mosquitoAedes excruciansCan spread germs or disease

Ranked by the number of Alaska records on GBIF (museum collections and citizen science such as iNaturalist).

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