Pests A – Z

Pests Found Outdoors

Deer

Pigeons

Palomas

Skunks

Squirrels

Voles

Woodpeckers

Vertebrate pests: birds and animals in Colorado

Weeds A – Z

Pests Found Outdoors

Insects and diseases in

Forests

Fruit trees

Gardens

Landscapes

Lawns

Pests by Crop

Pests Found Indoors & Around Buildings

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Ants

• Ants in the home
• Ants — School IPM Fact Sheet
• Hormigas — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
• Carpenter Ant
• Field Ant
• Harvester Ants
• Odorous House Ant
• Pavement Ant,
  • Controlling Pavement Ants with IPM (YouTube)
  • Pavement Ants In and Around Schools (YouTube)
• Pharaoh Ant

Bats — School IPM Fact Sheet[

• Murcielagos — Colorado Prensa de Plaga

Bed Bugs

• Bat Bugs, Bed Bugs and Relatives
• Bed Bugs — School IPM Fact Sheet [
• Chince de cama — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
• Bed Bug Recommendations for Nurses, Teachers and Administrators
• Photo identification of bed bugs, University of Arizona

Biting Insects & Arthropods

• Biting Flies
• Fleas
• Head Lice
  • Piojos — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
•  Mosquito Management
  • Mosquitoes — School IPM Fact Sheets 
  • Mosquitos — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
  • Controlling mosquito wrigglers (YouTube)
• Scabies
  • La sarna — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
• Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases 
  • Ticks — School IPM Fact Sheets
  • Garrapatas — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
• Western Widow Spider
• Mystery Bites and Itches

Cockroaches

• Cockroaches
  • Cockroaches — School IPM Fact Sheet
  • Cucarachas — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
  • YouTube from National Geographic

Mice

• House Mouse — School IPM Fact Sheet 
• Raton domestico — Colorado Prensa de Plaga 
• Controlling Mice with Snap Traps (YouTube)
• Do You Have Mice? (YouTube)

Nuisance Pests

Nuisance Invaders Poster

• Boxelder Bug
• Carpet Beetles
  • Carpet Beetles — School IPM Fact Sheet[
  • Escarabajo de alfombra — Colorado Prensa de Plaga 

Nuisance Pests

• Clover Mites
• Cluster Flies
• Conifer Seed Bugs
• Dermestid Beetles
• Earwigs

Flies in the Home

• Moth Flies
• Phorid Flies – Drain Flies
• Fungus Gnats as Houseplant and Indoor Pests
• Ceroxys latiusculus – A Picture-winged Fly
• Small Fruit Flies (Vinegar Flies)

Masked Hunter

• Master Hunter — School IPM Fact Sheet
• Cazadores enmascarados

Miller Moths

Millipedes, Centipedes and Sowbugs

Silverfish

• Silverfish — School IPM Fact Sheet
• Pececillo de plata — Colorado Prensa de plaga 

Springtails

• Springtails — School IPM Fact Sheet
• Colembolos — Colorado Prensa de Plaga

Western Conifer Seed Bug

Pantry Pests

Indian Meal Moth

Pigeons — School IPM Fact Sheet

• Palomas — Colorado Prensa de Plaga 

Spiders

Indoor Spiders of Colorado Poster

• Spiders — School IPM Fact Sheet 
• Aranas — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
• Spiders in the Home
• Spider of Concern in Schools in the Inter-Mountain West (YouTube)
• Catfaced Spider
• Banded Garden Spider
• Western Widow
• Dysdera crocata (“Roly Poly Hunter”)
• Funnel Weaver Spiders
• Brown Recluse in Colorado
• Yellow-Legged Sac Spiders
• Jumping Spiders
• Sunspiders

Stinging Insects

Stinging Insects Poster

• Stinging Insects — School IPM Fact Sheet 
• Avispas — Colorado Prensa de Plaga
• Baldfaced Hornet
• European Paper Wasp
• Honey Bee
• Western Yellow Jacket
  • European Paper Wasp versus Western Yellowjacket (YouTube)
  • European Paper Wasps (YouTube)

Vertebrates Pests: birds & animals in Colorado

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