Common Household and Garden Insects of Wyoming

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Insects: segmented body with 3 regions, head, thorax, and abdomen; 6 legs; antennae

Metallic wood-boring beetle Bumble flower beetle
Photo: Clemson University
Sap beetle
Photo: Ohio State University
Red flour beetle
Photo: R. Baldwin, UNL
       
Longhorn beetle Blister beetle Black vine weevil
Photo: CSU Cooperative Extension
Earwig
Photo: CSU Coop. Ext.
       
Carpet beetle
Photo: USDA Insect and
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Ladybird beetle larva Black grass bug Assassin and ambush bugs
Photo: S. Mahr, U. of Wisc-Madison
       
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
       
Western subterranean termites
Photo: U of CA
Cottony maple scale
Photo: Ohio State U.
Frit Flies
Photo: U of CA
Yellow face bee
       
   
  Spider wasp
Photo: Cornell U.
White satin moth
Photo: Peter J DeVries
 

 Ticks:  2 body regions, an unsegmented abdomen and a cephalothorax; body oval and minute; 8 legs; no antennae

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

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
     
Clubionid spider
Photo: J Kalisch, UNL
Philodromid spider
Photo: Ohio St. U.

Millipedes:  wormlike, cylindrical, many legged

Duff millipede
Photo: CSU Coop Ext. Service