Bugs in Kentucky

1342 bugs with full pages have records in Kentucky. House pests come first, then the bugs people report most.

House and yard pests in Kentucky

Eastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingCommon Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingBold Jumping SpiderPhidippus audaxCan biteAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteWestern Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingSpotted Cucumber BeetleDiabrotica undecimpunctataDamages trees, gardens or cropsBrown Marmorated Stink BugHalyomorpha halysDamages trees, gardens or cropsNorth American Wheel BugArilus cristatusCan biteJapanese BeetlePopillia japonicaDamages trees, gardens or cropsEastern Tent Caterpillar MothMalacosoma americanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsYellow Garden SpiderArgiope aurantiaCan biteGreen Stink BugChinavia hilarisDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Green June BeetleCotinis nitidaDamages trees, gardens or cropsFall Webworm MothHyphantria cuneaDamages trees, gardens or cropsDark Fishing SpiderDolomedes tenebrosusCan biteEastern Boxelder BugBoisea trivittataCan damage your homeSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataSpotted OrbweaverNeoscona cruciferaCan biteEastern YellowjacketVespula maculifronsCan stingIo MothAutomeris ioCan stingLone Star TickAmblyomma americanumCan spread germs or diseaseVaried Carpet BeetleAnthrenus verbasciCan damage your homeMetric Paper WaspPolistes metricusCan stingEuropean HornetVespa crabroCan sting

Other bugs seen in Kentucky

Dead-nettle Leaf BeetleFasta fastuosaDotted Paropsine Leaf BeetleParopsis atomariaDamages trees, gardens or cropsAustralian CockroachValidiblatta australasiaePriest CicadaSinfonia opaliferaSenecio Gall FlySphenella fascigeraCommon Mime SwallowtailPapilio clytiaButterfliesIpana junctilineaEurasian White AdmiralLimenitis camillaMonarchDanaus plexippusEastern Tiger SwallowtailPapilio glaucusPlague Soldier BeetleChauliognathus lugubrisTricolor Soldier BeetleChauliognathus tricolorPearl CrescentPhyciodes tharosNorthern CrescentPhyciodes cocytaField CrescentPhyciodes pulchellaHuron SkipperAtalopedes huronGreat Spangled FritillaryArgynnis cybeleSilver-spotted SkipperEpargyreus clarusDamages trees, gardens or cropsSpicebush SwallowtailPapilio troilusEastern Tailed-BlueEveres comyntasSix-spotted Tiger BeetleCicindela sexguttataHarmlessGoldenrod Soldier BeetleChauliognathus pensylvanicusHarmlessHackberry EmperorAsterocampa celtisMargined Leatherwing BeetleChauliognathus marginatusPipevine SwallowtailBattus philenorSilvery CheckerspotChlosyne nycteisVariegated FritillaryEuptoieta claudiaBlack SwallowtailPapilio polyxenesCommon BuckeyeJunonia coeniaBrown-belted Bumble BeeBombus griseocollisNorth American Luna MothActias lunaZebra SwallowtailEurytides marcellusDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaTan Jumping SpiderPlatycryptus undatusCan biteAilanthus Webworm MothAtteva aureaLittle Cigarette Harlequin MothAtteva pustulella

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

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