Common Household and Garden
Insects of Wyoming
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Insects: segmented
body with 3 regions, head, thorax, and abdomen; 6 legs; antennae
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Metallic wood-boring beetle |
Bumble flower beetle
Photo: Clemson University |
Sap beetle
Photo: Ohio State University |
Red flour beetle
Photo: R. Baldwin, UNL |
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Longhorn beetle |
Blister beetle |
Black vine weevil
Photo: CSU Cooperative Extension |
Earwig
Photo: CSU Coop. Ext. |
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Carpet beetle
Photo: USDA Insect and
Plant Disease slide set |
Ladybird beetle larva |
Black grass bug |
Assassin and ambush bugs
Photo: S. Mahr, U. of Wisc-Madison |
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False chinch bug
Photo: JK Clark, U. of CA |
Bed bug
Photo: M Potter, U. of KY |
Poplar leaf aphid
Photo: U of CA |
Flea |
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Western subterranean termites
Photo: U of CA |
Cottony maple scale
Photo: Ohio State U. |
Frit Flies
Photo: U of CA |
Yellow face bee |
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Spider wasp
Photo: Cornell U. |
White satin moth
Photo: Peter J DeVries |
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Ticks:
2 body regions, an unsegmented abdomen and a
cephalothorax; body oval and minute; 8 legs; no antennae
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Rocky Mountain wood tick
Photo: CDC |
Winter tick
Photo: Matt Pound, USDA/ARS |
Spiders:
2 body
regions, an unsegmented abdomen and a cephalothorax; abdomen constricted at
base; 8 legs; no antennae
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Black widow
Photo: RF
Billings, TX Forest Service |
Brown recluse
Photo: U of KY
Coop. Ext. Service |
Domestic funnel weaver
Photo: J Kalisch, UNL Entomology |
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Clubionid
spider
Photo: J Kalisch, UNL |
Philodromid
spider
Photo: Ohio St. U. |
Millipedes:
wormlike,
cylindrical, many legged
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Duff millipede
Photo: CSU Coop Ext. Service |