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.

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
  • 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
  • Earwigs
  • Crickets
  • *House crickets
  • Firebrats
  • Flies
  • *Bottle flies
  • **Blue bottle flies
  • **Green bottle flies
  • *House flies
  • *Fruit flies
  • Mosquitoes
  • Moths
  • *Almond moths
  • *Indianmeal moths
  • *Clothes moths
  • **Common clothes moths
  • **Brown house moths
  • Paper Lice
  • Red spiders
  • Silverfish
  • Spiders
  • Termites
  • *Dampwood termites
  • *Subterranean termites
  • Woodlouse