List of Common Household Pests

This section provides an alphabetical list of recognised household pests that pose a threat to our health, our property, or our general way of life.

• ants
  (includes argentine ants, carpenter ants, fire ants, odorous house ants, pavement ants, pharaoh ants, and thief ants)
• bed bugs
• bees
• carpet beetles
  (includes fur beetles and varied carpet beetles)
• cockroaches
  (includes brown-banded cockroaches, german cockroaches, and oriental cockroaches)
• firebrats
• fleas
• flies
• fruit flies
  (blue bottle flies, green bottle flies, and house flies)
• hedgehogs
• hornets
• house centipedes
• lice
• mealworm beetles
• moles
• red spiders
• rodents
  (includes mice and rats)
• shrews
• silverfish
• spider beetles
• termites
• wasps
• weevils
• woodlice
• woodworms
  (includes death watch beetles and furniture beetles)