Habitat: Indoors - Home and Garden IPM from Cooperative Extension - University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Insect ID: Indoors (in a house, greenhouse, garage, shed, etc.) Return to Kitchen and Food Storage Areas:

: Ants (especially Pavement Ants which are pictured here)

: American Cockroach (female)

: American Cockroach (female)

: American Cockroaches
(Male versus Female)

: Brown-banded Cockroaches

: Brown-banded Cockroaches (female: left; male: right)

: German Cockroaches

: German cockroach (female) (Blattella germanica)

: Ventral view of a female German cockroach, revealing her egg case called an ootheca

: Female German cockroach with ootheca (egg case) attached to her abdomen

: Blow Fly

: Blow Fly

: A type of blow fly commonly called a Green Bottle Fly.

: Cluster Fly

: Drain Fly (also called a Moth Fly)

: Drain Fly (additional example)

: Drugstore Beetles (Stegobium paniceum) (Alton, Maine; 8/2/2021)

: Drugstore Beetle (Stegobium paniceum) (Alton, Maine; 8/2/2021)

: Confused Flour Beetles and larvae

: Confused Flour beetle

: Flour Beetles (Left: Confused Flour Beetle; Right: Red Flour Beetle)

: Broadhorned Flour beetles

: A Broad-horned Flour Beetle and a larva of the same species

: Larva of a Broad-horned Flour Beetle

: Flour Beetles

: Comparison of three different beetle pests of stored grains

: Grain beetle (adult and larva/grub)

: Lesser Grain Borers

: Lesser Grain Borer damage to a grain of millet

: Lesser Grain Borers and a Merchant Grain Beetle

: Grain Beetles

: Fruit Flies

: House Fly larvae

: House Fly

: Pantry Moths / Flour Moths (Plodia interpunctella) (plus larvae and the webbing that the larvae spin, shown with one of their more unusual food sources: rodenticide pellets)

: Pantry Moth / Flour Moth (Plodia interpunctella)

: Larder Beetle larva

: Larder Beetle larvae

: Larder Beetle (Dermestes lardarius)

: Larder Beetle (Dermestes lardarius)

: Larder Beetle (Dermestes lardarius)

: Mealworms
(larvae and adults)

: Silverfish

: Four-lined Silverfish (Ctenolepisma lineatum)

: Example of a wood roach (Dusky Cockroach, Ectobius lapponicus) (male) (Stetson, Maine; 7/13/2015)

: Example of a wood roach (Tawny Cockroach, Ectobius pallidus) (male) (Acadia National Park, Maine; 10/11/2009)

Kitchen and Food Storage Areas: Ants (especially Pavement Ants) Blow Flies Broadhorned Flour Beetle Cluster Flies Cockroaches American Cockroach Brown-banded Cockroach German Cockroach Wood roaches (they only live outdoors but are attracted to lights