Midwest / region
5 entr(ies)
Black Carpenter Ant
A large, dull-black ant that nests in moist or decaying wood, tunneling galleries to build its colony rather than eating the wood like a termite.Boxelder Bug
A black-and-red true bug that feeds on female boxelder trees in summer and gathers on and inside warm buildings in fall, making it a harmless cool-season nuisance pest.Brown Recluse
A shy, venomous brown spider of the south-central United States, known for six eyes in three pairs and a violin-shaped mark, whose bite can occasionally cause a slow-healing skin wound.Eastern Subterranean Termite
A soil-dwelling, wood-eating social insect that is the most widely distributed termite species in the eastern United States and a major structural pest.Old House Borer
A longhorned beetle whose larvae tunnel for years inside seasoned softwood timbers, most often pine, slowly weakening structural wood in buildings.
A large, dull-black ant that nests in moist or decaying wood, tunneling galleries to build its colony rather than eating the wood like a termite.Boxelder Bug
A black-and-red true bug that feeds on female boxelder trees in summer and gathers on and inside warm buildings in fall, making it a harmless cool-season nuisance pest.Brown Recluse
A shy, venomous brown spider of the south-central United States, known for six eyes in three pairs and a violin-shaped mark, whose bite can occasionally cause a slow-healing skin wound.Eastern Subterranean Termite
A soil-dwelling, wood-eating social insect that is the most widely distributed termite species in the eastern United States and a major structural pest.Old House Borer
A longhorned beetle whose larvae tunnel for years inside seasoned softwood timbers, most often pine, slowly weakening structural wood in buildings.