Bugs in Tennessee

1488 bugs with full pages have records in Tennessee. House pests come first, then the bugs people report most.

House and yard pests in Tennessee

Common Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteEastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingLone Star TickAmblyomma americanumCan spread germs or diseaseWestern Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingYellow Garden SpiderArgiope aurantiaCan biteBrown Marmorated Stink BugHalyomorpha halysDamages trees, gardens or cropsEastern Tent Caterpillar MothMalacosoma americanaDamages trees, gardens or cropsJapanese BeetlePopillia japonicaDamages trees, gardens or cropsJoro SpiderTrichonephila clavataCan biteBold Jumping SpiderPhidippus audaxCan biteSpotted OrbweaverNeoscona cruciferaCan biteFall Webworm MothHyphantria cuneaDamages trees, gardens or cropsNorth American Wheel BugArilus cristatusCan biteCommon Green June BeetleCotinis nitidaDamages trees, gardens or cropsEastern Boxelder BugBoisea trivittataCan damage your homeSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataBark Lice, Book Lice, and Parasitic LicePsocopteraCan damage your homeDark Fishing SpiderDolomedes tenebrosusCan biteEastern Black Carpenter AntCamponotus pennsylvanicusCan damage your homeCommon Eastern Velvet AntDasymutilla occidentalisCan stingSpotted Cucumber BeetleDiabrotica undecimpunctataDamages trees, gardens or cropsEuropean HornetVespa crabroCan stingEastern YellowjacketVespula maculifronsCan sting

Other bugs seen in Tennessee

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 Tiger SwallowtailPapilio glaucusPipevine SwallowtailBattus philenorMonarchDanaus plexippusGulf FritillaryDione vanillaeHuron SkipperAtalopedes huronSilver-spotted SkipperEpargyreus clarusDamages trees, gardens or cropsCommon BuckeyeJunonia coeniaCommon WhitetailPlathemis lydiaHackberry EmperorAsterocampa celtisPlague Soldier BeetleChauliognathus lugubrisTricolor Soldier BeetleChauliognathus tricolorGreat Spangled FritillaryArgynnis cybelePearl CrescentPhyciodes tharosNorthern CrescentPhyciodes cocytaField CrescentPhyciodes pulchellaNorth American Luna MothActias lunaEastern Tailed-BlueEveres comyntasEbony JewelwingCalopteryx maculataEastern PondhawkErythemis simplicicollisSpicebush SwallowtailPapilio troilusAilanthus Webworm MothAtteva aureaLittle Cigarette Harlequin MothAtteva pustulellaCarabus goryiCarabus goryiBlue DasherPachydiplax longipennisBrown-belted Bumble BeeBombus griseocollisVariegated FritillaryEuptoieta claudiaBanded Tussock MothHalysidota tessellarisCarolina SatyrHermeuptychia sosybius

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

More in the Southeast region · all states