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  • Animals that bite, sting and irritate
  • Animals in foods
  • Animals that attack textiles
  • Animals in paper, leather and plastics
  • Animals in timber
  • Animals in masonry and insulation
  • Animals in thatch
  • Animals that gnaw metal
  • Animals that merely live in the house
  • Animals that come inside for the winter
  • Occasional visitors

Animals that bite, sting and irritate

Banded mosquito

Bed bug

Brown dog tick

Castor bean tick

Cat flea

Chicken flea

Common flower bug

Common gnat

Common hornet - wasp

Crab louse

Davies's Colletes

Debris bug

Dog louse

European pigeon tick

Feather louse

German wasp

Great wasp - hornet

Head louse

Honey bee

House centipede

House dust mite

Human flea

Ichneumonida

Itch mite

Louse fly

Malaria mosquito

Martin bug

Masked hunter and larva

Mason bee

Ophion

Patchwork leafcutter

Pigeon louse fly

Prune mite

Scorpion

Springtail

Springtails

Stable fly

Thrips

Yellow fever mosquito

Animals in foods

Almond bark beetle

American cockroach

Australian pider beetle

Bacon beetle

Bean weevil

Black garden ant

Blowfly and pupa

Broad-horned flour beetle, Gnathocerus cornutus

Brown carpet beetle

Brown house moth and larva

Brown-banded cockroach

Cadelle beetle

Cheese fly

Cheese mite

Cigarette beetle

Coffee bean weevil

Common house fly

Confused flour beetle

Dark flour beetle

Dermestid beetle

Drugstore beetle

Dust louse

Female odd beetle

Female oriental cockroach

Flesh fly

Flour mite

Flour moth and larva

German cockroach with egg capsule

Golden spider beetle

Granary weevil

Groundnut borer

Ham beetle

Indian meal moth and larva

Jet black ant

Khapra beetle and larva

Larva from beetle

Lesser grain borer

Lesser house fly and larva

Lesser mealworm beetle

Maggot - Blowfly larva

Male odd beetle

Male oriental  cockroach

Male spiderbeetle

Mealworm - Mealworm beetle larva

Mealworm beetle

Odd beetle larva

Pharaoh ant

Prune mite

Pupa from house fly

Red-breasted copra beetle

Red-legged ham beetle

Reesa vespulae and larva

Rice weevil

Rust-red grain beetle and larva

Saw-toothed grain beetle and larva

Scuttle fly

Smooth spider beetle

Spider beetle, Sphaericus gibbioides

Thysanura - Firebrat

Thysanura - Silverfish

Trogoderma angustum

Tyrophagus longior

Vinegar fly

Warehouse moth

Whitemarked spider beetle

Wine moth

Animals that attack textiles

Brown house moth and larva

Carpet beetle

Case bearing clothes moth

Common clothes moth

Common house mite

Male spider beetle

Saw-toothed grain beetle

Spider beetle, Sphaericus gibbioides

Tapestry moth

Thysanura - Firebrat

Thysanura - Silverfish

Varied carpet beetle

White-shouldered house moth with its wings open

White-shouldered house moth

Animals in paper, leather and plastics

Blue woodlouse

Book worm (Furniture beetle larva)

Booklouse with wings

Booklouse without wings

Cigarette beetle

Common woodlouse

Dermestid beetle

Drugstore beetle

Great slug

Male spider beetle

Spider beetle, Sphaericus gibbioides

Thysanura - Firebrat

Thysanura - Silverfish

Yellow slug

Animals in timber

Ash bark beetle

Bacon beetle

Bamboo beetle - Chlorophorus annularis

Bark borer beetle - Ernobius mollis

Basket beetle

Bee moth and larva - Aphomia sociella

Black spruce long-horn beetle

Blue woodlouse

Brown house moth and larva

Common black ant

Common hornet - wasp

Common woodlouse

Copra beetle

Criocephalus rusticus

Death watch beetle

Dermestid beetle

Fan-bearing wood borer beetle

Female phymatodes testaceus

Furniture beetle

German wasp

Goat moth larva

Goat moth

Great hornet - wasp

Great horntail wasp larva

Greater horntail wasp

Hercules ant

House borer

House longhorn

Ichneumon wasp

Jet-black ant

Large timberworm beetle and larva

Lymexylon navale and larva

Male tan bark borer - Phymatodes testaceus

New zealand wood weevil - Euophryum confine

Opilo

Pine sawyer

Pine weevil

Powder post beetle and larva

Red longhorn beetle - Leptura rubra

Spider beetle larva

Striped ambrosia beetle

Termite - Reticulitermes flavipes

Violet tanbark beetle

Wasp beetle - Clytus arietis

Welsh oak longhorn beetle

Wharf borer

Wood boring weevil, Pentarthrum huttoni

Wood boring weevil

Wood waps

Wood wasp

Yellow meadow ant

Animals in masonry and insulation

Black garden ant

Bumble bee

German wasp

Mason bee

Melorm - Larve fra melbille

Red-tailed bumble bee

Regular hornet - Wasp

Skin beetle larva

Stor gedehams, hveps

Wood wasp

Yellow meadow ant - Lasius umbratus

Animals in thatch

Caredrina clavipalpis

Wood wasp

Animals that gnaw metal

Termite - Reticulitermes flavipes

Animals that merely live in the house

Bathroom fly

Big hornet, wasp

Ciniflo fenestralis

Common bumble bee - Bombus hypnorum

Common bumble bee - Bombus lapidarius

Common house spider

Empicoris culiciformis

False scorpion

German wasp

Great slug

Harvestman - Opilio Parietinus

Harvestmen - Phalangium opilio

Honey bee

House cricket

Mason bee

Mould beetle - female

Mould beetle - male

Patchwork leafcutter

Regular hornet - Wasp

Spider - Pholcus phalangoides

Spider - Zygiella X-notata

Steatoda bipunctata

The aphomia sociella moth and larva

Yellow slug

Zebra spider

Animals that come inside for the winter

Autumn house fly

Cabbage butterly pupa

Cereal leaf beetle

Cluster fly

Common gnat

Grass fly

Lacewing

Large common mosquito

Peacock butterfly

Seven-spot ladybird

Small tortoiseshell

Occasional visitors

Blue woodlouse

Cis boleti

Clover mite

Common centipede

Common earwig

Common woodlouse

Cone bug

Devil's coach-horse

Dronefly larva

Dronefly

Dusky cockroach

Earthworm

European ground beetle

Gamaside mite

Harvestman

House centipede

Hoverfly, Syrphus ribesii

Millipedes - Archiuslus sabulosus

Pollen beetle

Soil centipede

Springtail

Springtails

Thrips

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Henri Mourier
Biologist at Statens Skadedyrslaboratorium
Author of:
"Pests in House and Home"
"Bed Bugs - Bites, Stings and Itches"
"Food Pests"
"Husets dyreliv" (Insects Around the House - Only danish)
"Skadedyr i træ" (Timber Pests - Only danish)
"Stuefluen" (Common Housefly - Only danish)
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