Bugs in New Jersey

1528 bugs with full pages have records in New Jersey. House pests come first, then the bugs people report most.

House and yard pests in New Jersey

Spotted LanternflyLycorma delicatulaDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteWestern Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingEastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingEastern Tent Caterpillar MothMalacosoma americanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsJapanese BeetlePopillia japonicaDamages trees, gardens or cropsBold Jumping SpiderPhidippus audaxCan biteBrown Marmorated Stink BugHalyomorpha halysDamages trees, gardens or cropsBald-faced HornetDolichovespula maculataCan stingSpongy MothLymantria disparDamages trees, gardens or cropsEastern YellowjacketVespula maculifronsCan stingEastern Cicada-killer WaspSphecius speciosusCan stingEuropean HornetVespa crabroCan stingLone Star TickAmblyomma americanumCan spread germs or diseaseNorthern Paper WaspPolistes fuscatusCan stingEastern Black Carpenter AntCamponotus pennsylvanicusCan damage your homeNorth American Wheel BugArilus cristatusCan biteCommon Pill WoodlouseArmadillidium vulgareHarmlessAmerican Dog TickDermacentor variabilisCan spread germs or diseaseGreen Stink BugChinavia hilarisDamages trees, gardens or cropsSpotted Cucumber BeetleDiabrotica undecimpunctataDamages trees, gardens or cropsWestern Conifer Seed BugLeptoglossus occidentalisDamages trees, gardens or cropsFall Webworm MothHyphantria cuneaDamages trees, gardens or crops

Other bugs seen in New Jersey

Senecio Gall FlySphenella fascigeraDead-nettle Leaf BeetleFasta fastuosaDotted Paropsine Leaf BeetleParopsis atomariaDamages trees, gardens or cropsAustralian CockroachValidiblatta australasiaePriest CicadaSinfonia opaliferaCommon Mime SwallowtailPapilio clytiaButterfliesIpana junctilineaEurasian White AdmiralLimenitis camillaMonarchDanaus plexippusEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisFragile ForktailIschnura positaCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaSlaty SkimmerLibellula incestaEastern Tiger SwallowtailPapilio glaucusHalloween PennantCelithemis eponinaHuron SkipperAtalopedes huronBlue CorporalLadona deplanataEastern AmberwingPerithemis teneraSmall WhitePieris rapaeCitrine ForktailIschnura hastataCalico PennantCelithemis elisaRambur's ForktailIschnura ramburiiHarmlessCommon Green DarnerAnax juniusSilver-spotted SkipperEpargyreus clarusDamages trees, gardens or cropsCarolina SaddlebagsTramea carolinaWidow SkimmerLibellula luctuosaAutumn MeadowhawkSympetrum vicinumBrown-belted Bumble BeeBombus griseocollisFamiliar BluetEnallagma civileBlack SwallowtailPapilio polyxenesEbony JewelwingCalopteryx maculataZabulon SkipperLon zabulonCommon BuckeyeJunonia coeniaSpicebush SwallowtailPapilio troilusGreat Blue SkimmerLibellula vibrans

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

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