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Sheltering in place because of COVID-19?No need to be socially distant from insects in your backyard! Learn about the common bugs you would find in your California home and back yard- though most of these are found all over the United States. Click on the image and a fact sheet will open up in a new page. We always welcome new suggestions for information sheets. Contact us with your ideas!
Note: These photos for each information sheet come from many different sources and talented people. Particular images and their sources can be found on each of the information sheets.
Ants
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Be Like Bohart! Be like Kimsey!
Our museum's first and second director both got their start with insects at a young age. Prof. Richard Bohart and his brother spent time outside collecting butterflies as teenagers in Oakland, CA. Prof. Lynn Kimsey and her sister, as little kids, would look for insects in parks near their home in Richmond, CA.
Today UC Davis students can show you how to collect insects and start an insect collection. Watch these YouTube videos:
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Beetles
fig beetle
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lady bugs, lady beetles
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powder post beetle
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black Walnut Borer
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drugstore beetle
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carpet beetle
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darkling beetle, stink beetle
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Wasps/Bees
carpenter bees
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wool carder bee
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horntail wasp
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paper wasps
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paper wasp comparison
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bald-faced hornet
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yellow jackets
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key to yellow Jackets
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Mites/Ticks
biting nest mites
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ticks
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hay itch mites
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house dust mites
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medically important mites
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mold mites
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Spiders
Sac spiders
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Wolf spiders
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Cellar spiders
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Recluse spiders, Brown recluse
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Widows
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Jumping spiders
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Spider bites
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Flies
fungus gnat
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spotted-winged fruit fly
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scuttle flies
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house fly
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no-see-um
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Butterflies/Moths
Clothes moths
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Indian meal moths
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Tomato Hornworm
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Tiger swallowtail
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Monarch butterfly
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Pipevine swallowtail
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True Bugs
Cinch bug
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
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Woolly aphids
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Aphids
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Boxelder bugs
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Leaf-footed bug
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Kissing bug, Assassin bug
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Additional Home Pests
exotic roaches in CA
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Oriental cockroach
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American cockroach
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lice
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bedbug
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termites
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silverfish
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fleas
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More Insects
Beneficial insects
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Jerusalem cricket, Potato bug,
Niña de la tierra
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Praying mantids
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Psocids
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Earwig
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Urban Myths
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Other Non-insects
house centipede
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springtails, Collembola
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sowbug, pillbug, roly poly
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scorpions
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camel spider, sun scorpion
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lawn shrimp
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earthworms
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