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Insect Fact Sheets

Public Health:

• Bed Bugs:
• Mosquitoes:
  • Results of Mosquito Testing 1998-Present
  • West Nile Virus
• Ticks:
  • Tick Testing
    
  • Tick Management Handbook – Revision 2007
  • Managing Ticks on Your Property
  • American Dog Tick
  • Prevention of Ticks and Tick-Associated Disease in Companion Animals
  • The Prevention of Tick Bite and Tick-Borne Disease
  • Tick Associated Diseases
  • Transmission of the Lyme Disease Spirochete
  • Summary of Tick Testing Results
• Cat Flea
• Northern Black Widow Spider

Invasives:

• Asian Longhorned Beetle
• Emerald Ash Borer:
  • Preserving Trees from Emerald Ash Borer
• European Grape Vine Moth
• Spongy Moth
• Light Brown Apple Moth
• Rough Shouldered Longhorned Beetle
• Spotted Lanternfly:
  • Spotted Lanternfly Management for Residents 
  • Spotted Lanternfly Reporting Form (report a sighting)
  • Spotted Lanternfly Fact Sheet/Submission Form (submit a specimen)
  • Tree-of-Heaven ID
• Southern Pine Beetle
• Summer Fruit Tortrix Moth
• Velvet Longhorned Beetle
• Winter Moth

Structural/Indoor Pests:

• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
• Carpenter Ant
  • Spanish version: Hormigas Carpinteras
• Carpenter Bee
• Cluster Fly
• Eastern Subterranean Termite
• House Centipede
• Moth Fly
• Spiders in the House
• Springtail
• Western Conifer Seed Bug
• Wood-boring Beetles

Store Product and Fabric Pests:

• Carpet Beetles
• Cigarette and Drugstore Beetles
• Clothes Moths
• Cockroaches
• Indianmeal Moth
• Silverfish and Firebrats

Vegetable and Fruit Pests:

• Aphids
• Cucumber Beetles
• Cutworms
• European Corn Borer: A New Pest Affecting CT Hops
• European Earwig
• Fourlined Plant Bug
• Pepper Maggot
• Pigweed Flea Beetle
• Spotted Wing Drosophila:
  • Update on Spray Materials For Managing Spotted Wing Drosophila
• Squash Beetle (coming soon)
• Squash Bug (coming soon)
• Tomato and Tobacco Hornworm

Lawn and Landscape:

• Acorn Pip/Woolly Catkin Gall
• Annual Cicada
• Brazilian Skipper/Larger Canna Leafroller
• Chinch Bug
• Cicada Killer Wasp
• Fall Webworm
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
  • Eastern Hemlock Forests: Guidelines to Minimize the Impacts of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid - USDA Publication
  • Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Winter Mortality in Connecticut
• Hibiscus Sawfly
• Insect Pests of Turf
• Lace Bug (coming soon)
• Lily Leaf Beetle
• Mantids
• Norway Spruce Shoot Gall Midge
• Orangestriped Oakworm
• Redheaded Flea Beetle
• Scale Insects
  • Spanish version: Insectos Escama
• Sod Webworm
• Spiders in the Landscape
• Spider Mites
• Tent Caterpillars
• Viburnum Leaf Beetle
• White Grubs
• Yellowjackets

Plant Pest Handbook

Miscellaneous Fact Sheets:

• Delusional Infestation
• Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
• Pollinators
  • 5 Ways to Help Wild Bees
  • 5 Ways to Help Monarchs
  • Ground Nesting Bees
  • Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides
  • Bees on Alternative Flowering Plants on Vegetable Farms in CT
  • Proper Timing to Mow Native Plant Meadows Can Protect Pollinator Habitat
• Use of Neonicotinoids in the Home Landscape