Bugs in Ohio

1450 bugs with full pages have records in Ohio. House pests come first, then the bugs people report most.

House and yard pests in Ohio

Common Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingWestern Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteEastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingInland Floodwater MosquitoAedes vexansCan spread germs or diseaseSpotted LanternflyLycorma delicatulaDamages trees, gardens or cropsHouse Mosquito ComplexCulex pipiensCan spread germs or diseaseBold Jumping SpiderPhidippus audaxCan biteSpotted Cucumber BeetleDiabrotica undecimpunctataDamages trees, gardens or cropsJapanese BeetlePopillia japonicaDamages trees, gardens or cropsBrown Marmorated Stink BugHalyomorpha halysDamages trees, gardens or cropsBald-faced HornetDolichovespula maculataCan stingFall Webworm MothHyphantria cuneaDamages trees, gardens or cropsNorthern Paper WaspPolistes fuscatusCan stingDark Fishing SpiderDolomedes tenebrosusCan biteGreen Stink BugChinavia hilarisDamages trees, gardens or cropsEastern Black Carpenter AntCamponotus pennsylvanicusCan damage your homeEastern YellowjacketVespula maculifronsCan stingWetland Giant Wolf SpiderTigrosa helluoCan biteNorth American Wheel BugArilus cristatusCan biteSpotted OrbweaverNeoscona cruciferaCan biteYellow Garden SpiderArgiope aurantiaCan biteFurrow OrbweaverLarinioides cornutusCan biteEuropean Paper WaspPolistes dominulaCan sting

Other bugs seen in Ohio

Priest CicadaSinfonia opaliferaSenecio Gall FlySphenella fascigeraDamages trees, gardens or cropsDead-nettle Leaf BeetleFasta fastuosaDotted Paropsine Leaf BeetleParopsis atomariaDamages trees, gardens or cropsAustralian CockroachValidiblatta australasiaeCommon Mime SwallowtailPapilio clytiaButterfliesIpana junctilineaEurasian White AdmiralLimenitis camillaMonarchDanaus plexippusEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisEastern ForktailIschnura verticalisFragile ForktailIschnura positaWidow SkimmerLibellula luctuosaCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaEastern AmberwingPerithemis teneraAutumn MeadowhawkSympetrum vicinumEbony JewelwingCalopteryx maculataEastern Tiger SwallowtailPapilio glaucusPearl CrescentPhyciodes tharosNorthern CrescentPhyciodes cocytaField CrescentPhyciodes pulchellaBrown-belted Bumble BeeBombus griseocollisFamiliar BluetEnallagma civileBlue-fronted DancerArgia apicalisSilver-spotted SkipperEpargyreus clarusDamages trees, gardens or cropsPowdered DancerArgia moestaCommon Green DarnerAnax juniusLong DashLimochores mysticSlaty SkimmerLibellula incestaDouble-striped BluetEnallagma basidensBlack SwallowtailPapilio polyxenesZabulon SkipperLon zabulonStream BluetEnallagma exsulansSmall WhitePieris rapaeBlue-tipped DancerArgia tibialis

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

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