Bugs in the Southeast

States: Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana.

House and yard pests

Common Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingWestern Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteEastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingAsian Tiger MosquitoAedes albopictusCan spread germs or diseaseYellow Garden SpiderArgiope aurantiaCan biteSpotted LanternflyLycorma delicatulaDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon malaria mosquitoAnopheles quadrimaculatusCan spread germs or diseaseInland Floodwater MosquitoAedes vexansCan spread germs or diseaseGolden Silk SpiderTrichonephila clavipesCan biteNorth American Wheel BugArilus cristatusCan biteEastern Tent Caterpillar MothMalacosoma americanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsLone Star TickAmblyomma americanumCan spread germs or diseaseBrown Marmorated Stink BugHalyomorpha halysDamages trees, gardens or cropsFall Webworm MothHyphantria cuneaDamages trees, gardens or cropsBold Jumping SpiderPhidippus audaxCan biteCommon Green June BeetleCotinis nitidaDamages trees, gardens or cropsJapanese BeetlePopillia japonicaDamages trees, gardens or cropsJoro SpiderTrichonephila clavataCan biteRed Imported Fire AntSolenopsis invictaCan stingCommon Pill WoodlouseArmadillidium vulgareHarmlessSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataSpotted OrbweaverNeoscona cruciferaCan biteIo MothAutomeris ioCan sting

Most reported bugs

MonarchDanaus plexippusFlorida SLE MosquitoCulex nigripalpusCan spread germs or diseaseEastern Tiger SwallowtailPapilio glaucusAnopheles cruciansAnopheles cruciansCan spread germs or diseaseGulf FritillaryDione vanillaeCulex erraticusCulex erraticusCan spread germs or diseaseEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisCommon BuckeyeJunonia coeniaSilver-spotted SkipperEpargyreus clarusDamages trees, gardens or cropsPearl CrescentPhyciodes tharosNorthern CrescentPhyciodes cocytaField CrescentPhyciodes pulchellaDark Ricefield MosquitoPsorophora columbiaeCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaFiery SkipperHylephila phyleusDamages trees, gardens or cropsBlack Saltmarsh MosquitoAedes taeniorhynchusCan spread germs or diseaseBlack-tailed MosquitoCuliseta melanuraSpicebush SwallowtailPapilio troilusBlack SwallowtailPapilio polyxenesNorth American Luna MothActias lunaCloudless SulphurPhoebis sennaeGolden Sweat BeeAugochlorella aurataEastern Tailed-BlueEveres comyntasCattail MosquitoCoquillettidia perturbansCan spread germs or diseasePipevine SwallowtailBattus philenorEastern Lubber GrasshopperRomalea micropteraSilverback MosquitoAedes infirmatusCan biteAmerican Bumble BeeBombus pensylvanicusCan stingEbony JewelwingCalopteryx maculataBrown-belted Bumble BeeBombus griseocollisCarolina MantisStagmomantis carolinaCalifornia MantisStagmomantis wheeleriiVariegated FritillaryEuptoieta claudiaFragile ForktailIschnura positaAilanthus Webworm MothAtteva aurea