Bugs in Virginia

1440 bugs with full pages have records in Virginia. House pests come first, then the bugs people report most.

House and yard pests in Virginia

Spotted LanternflyLycorma delicatulaDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteInland Floodwater MosquitoAedes vexansCan spread germs or diseaseEastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingAsian Tiger MosquitoAedes albopictusCan spread germs or diseaseWestern Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingCommon malaria mosquitoAnopheles quadrimaculatusCan spread germs or diseaseHouse Mosquito ComplexCulex pipiensCan spread germs or diseaseEastern Tent Caterpillar MothMalacosoma americanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsNorth American Wheel BugArilus cristatusCan biteYellow Garden SpiderArgiope aurantiaCan biteBrown Marmorated Stink BugHalyomorpha halysDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Rough WoodlousePorcellio scaberDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Green June BeetleCotinis nitidaDamages trees, gardens or cropsJapanese BeetlePopillia japonicaDamages trees, gardens or cropsEuropean HornetVespa crabroCan stingBold Jumping SpiderPhidippus audaxCan biteSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataEastern YellowjacketVespula maculifronsCan stingEastern Black-legged TickIxodes scapularisCan spread germs or diseaseEastern Black Carpenter AntCamponotus pennsylvanicusCan damage your homeDark Fishing SpiderDolomedes tenebrosusCan biteBlack-and-gold Flat MillipedeApheloria virginiensis

Other bugs seen in Virginia

Senecio Gall FlySphenella fascigeraDamages trees, gardens or cropsPriest CicadaSinfonia opaliferaDead-nettle Leaf BeetleFasta fastuosaDotted Paropsine Leaf BeetleParopsis atomariaDamages trees, gardens or cropsAustralian CockroachValidiblatta australasiaeCommon Mime SwallowtailPapilio clytiaButterfliesIpana junctilineaEurasian White AdmiralLimenitis camillaMonarchDanaus plexippusEastern Tiger SwallowtailPapilio glaucusBlack-tailed MosquitoCuliseta melanuraHuron SkipperAtalopedes huronCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaCulex erraticusCulex erraticusCan spread germs or diseaseSilver-spotted SkipperEpargyreus clarusDamages trees, gardens or cropsAnopheles cruciansAnopheles cruciansCan spread germs or diseasePearl CrescentPhyciodes tharosNorthern CrescentPhyciodes cocytaField CrescentPhyciodes pulchellaEastern Tailed-BlueEveres comyntasEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisCommon BuckeyeJunonia coeniaBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisWhite-footed Woods MosquitoPsorophora feroxCan spread germs or diseaseWoodland Pool MosquitoAedes canadensisCan biteWhite-dotted MosquitoCulex restuansCan spread germs or diseaseZabulon SkipperLon zabulonPlague Soldier BeetleChauliognathus lugubrisTricolor Soldier BeetleChauliognathus tricolorGolden Sweat BeeAugochlorella aurataSmall WhitePieris rapaeSpicebush SwallowtailPapilio troilusLarge Milkweed BugOncopeltus fasciatusAedes atlanticusAedes atlanticusCan spread germs or diseaseWoodland Malaria MosquitoAnopheles punctipennisCan spread germs or diseaseZebra SwallowtailEurytides marcellusDamages trees, gardens or crops

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

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