List of common household pests

This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.

The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect.^[1]

Mammals

• Mice
  • Field mice
  • House mice
• Possums
  • Brushtail possum
  • Ringtail possum
• Rats
  • Black rats
  • Brown rats
  • Wood rats
  • Cotton rats

Invertebrates

• Ants
  • Argentine ants
  • Carpenter ants
  • Fire ants
  • Odorous house ants
  • Pharaoh ants
  • Thief ants
• Bed bugs^[2]
• Beetles
  • Woodworms
    • Death watch beetles
    • Furniture beetles
  • Weevils
    • Maize weevil
    • Rice weevil
  • Carpet beetles
    • Fur beetles
    • Varied carpet beetles
  • Spider beetles
  • Mealworm beetles
• Centipedes
  • House centipedes
• Cockroaches
  • Brown-banded cockroaches
  • German cockroaches
  • American cockroaches
  • Oriental cockroaches
• Dust mites^[3]
• Earwigs
• Crickets
  • House crickets
• Firebrats
• Flies
  • Bottle flies
    • Blue bottle flies
    • Green bottle flies
  • House flies^[1]
  • Fruit flies
• Mosquitoes
• Moths
  • Almond moths
  • Indianmeal moths
  • Clothes moths
    • Common clothes moths
    • Brown house moths
• Paper Lice
• Red spiders
• Silverfish
• Spiders
• Termites^[4]
  • Dampwood termites
  • Subterranean termites
• Woodlouse

See also

• Home-stored product entomology
• List of notifiable diseases
• Noxious weed
• Pest (organism)