Bugs in Florida

1299 bugs with full pages have records in Florida. House pests come first, then the bugs people report most.

House and yard pests in Florida

Western Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingCommon malaria mosquitoAnopheles quadrimaculatusCan spread germs or diseaseGolden Silk SpiderTrichonephila clavipesCan biteSouthern House MosquitoCulex quinquefasciatusCan spread germs or diseaseAsian Tiger MosquitoAedes albopictusCan spread germs or diseaseAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteYellow Fever MosquitoAedes aegyptiCan spread germs or diseaseRed Imported Fire AntSolenopsis invictaCan stingInland Floodwater MosquitoAedes vexansCan spread germs or diseaseLone Star TickAmblyomma americanumCan spread germs or diseaseCommon Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingIo MothAutomeris ioCan stingYellow Garden SpiderArgiope aurantiaCan biteNorth American Wheel BugArilus cristatusCan biteEastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingSouthern Flannel MothMegalopyge opercularisVenomousSurinam CockroachPycnoscelus surinamensisCan spread germs or diseaseBark Lice, Book Lice, and Parasitic LicePsocopteraCan damage your homeCommon Eastern Velvet AntDasymutilla occidentalisCan stingMetric Paper WaspPolistes metricusCan stingSouthern YellowjacketVespula squamosaCan stingBrown WidowLatrodectus geometricusCan biteLonghorn Crazy AntParatrechina longicornisNuisance, not dangerousYellow-legged Mud-dauber WaspSceliphron caementariumCan sting

Other bugs seen in Florida

Senecio Gall FlySphenella fascigeraDamages trees, gardens or cropsDead-nettle Leaf BeetleFasta fastuosaDotted Paropsine Leaf BeetleParopsis atomariaDamages trees, gardens or cropsAustralian CockroachValidiblatta australasiaePriest CicadaSinfonia opaliferaCommon Mime SwallowtailPapilio clytiaButterfliesIpana junctilineaEurasian White AdmiralLimenitis camillaFlorida SLE MosquitoCulex nigripalpusCan spread germs or diseaseAnopheles cruciansAnopheles cruciansCan spread germs or diseaseCulex erraticusCulex erraticusCan spread germs or diseaseDark Ricefield MosquitoPsorophora columbiaeBlack Saltmarsh MosquitoAedes taeniorhynchusCan spread germs or diseaseGulf FritillaryDione vanillaeMonarchDanaus plexippusSilverback MosquitoAedes infirmatusCan biteEastern Lubber GrasshopperRomalea micropteraWhite PeacockAnartia jatrophaeCattail MosquitoCoquillettidia perturbansCan spread germs or diseaseBlack-tailed MosquitoCuliseta melanuraEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisZebra LongwingHeliconius charithoniaSpinybacked OrbweaverGasteracantha cancriformisWhite-footed Woods MosquitoPsorophora feroxCan spread germs or diseaseHalloween PennantCelithemis eponinaAedes atlanticusAedes atlanticusCan spread germs or diseaseCommon BuckeyeJunonia coeniaLong DashLimochores mysticFlorida Carpenter AntCamponotus floridanusCan biteGallinipperPsorophora ciliataCan bitePacific Velvet AntDasymutilla aureolaDasymutilla bioculataDasymutilla bioculataFiery SkipperHylephila phyleusDamages trees, gardens or cropsLong-tailed SkipperUrbanus proteusDamages trees, gardens or cropsAtalaEumaeus atalaDamages trees, gardens or crops

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

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