Bugs in Louisiana

1283 bugs with full pages have records in Louisiana. House pests come first, then the bugs people report most.

House and yard pests in Louisiana

Western Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteYellow Garden SpiderArgiope aurantiaCan biteGolden Silk SpiderTrichonephila clavipesCan biteFall Webworm MothHyphantria cuneaDamages trees, gardens or cropsEastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingIo MothAutomeris ioCan stingMetric Paper WaspPolistes metricusCan stingRed Imported Fire AntSolenopsis invictaCan stingCommon Pill WoodlouseArmadillidium vulgareHarmlessCommon Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingBold Jumping SpiderPhidippus audaxCan biteEastern Black Carpenter AntCamponotus pennsylvanicusCan damage your homeNorth American Wheel BugArilus cristatusCan biteSouthern Flannel MothMegalopyge opercularisVenomousSpotted Cucumber BeetleDiabrotica undecimpunctataDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Eastern Velvet AntDasymutilla occidentalisCan stingBark Lice, Book Lice, and Parasitic LicePsocopteraCan damage your homeFormosan subterranean termiteCoptotermes formosanusCan damage your homeYellow-legged Mud-dauber WaspSceliphron caementariumCan stingEastern Tent Caterpillar MothMalacosoma americanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsAmerican CockroachPeriplaneta americanaCan spread germs or diseaseSouthern YellowjacketVespula squamosaCan stingAsian Tiger MosquitoAedes albopictusCan spread germs or disease

Other bugs seen in Louisiana

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 camillaEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisMonarchDanaus plexippusGulf FritillaryDione vanillaeAmerican Bumble BeeBombus pensylvanicusCan stingEastern Lubber GrasshopperRomalea micropteraGreat Blue SkimmerLibellula vibransCommon BuckeyeJunonia coeniaPearl CrescentPhyciodes tharosNorthern CrescentPhyciodes cocytaField CrescentPhyciodes pulchellaMilkweed Assassin BugZelus longipesEastern Giant SwallowtailHeraclides cresphontesDamages trees, gardens or cropsLong-tailed SkipperUrbanus proteusDamages trees, gardens or cropsBlack SwallowtailPapilio polyxenesFiery SkipperHylephila phyleusDamages trees, gardens or cropsTwin-flagged Jumping SpiderAnasaitis canosusViceroyLimenitis archippusFragile ForktailIschnura positaRambur's ForktailIschnura ramburiiHarmlessCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaSalt Marsh MothEstigmene acreaEastern Tiger SwallowtailPapilio glaucusSpinybacked OrbweaverGasteracantha cancriformisGiant leaf-footed bugAcanthocephala declivisWaterlily Leafcutter MothElophila obliteralisQuestion MarkPolygonia interrogationisSpicebush SwallowtailPapilio troilus

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

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