Table 1.

A list of major categories of insect pests

Types	Subcategory	Examples
Agricultural and horticultural pest insects	Root-eating insects	Root maggots, mole crickets, white grubs
	Chewing insects	Caterpillar, chafer beetle, semi looper
	Piercing and sucking insects	Aphids, scales, mealy bugs, thrips, red mites
	Seed-, pod-, and fruit-eating insects	Corn earworm, pickleworm, pod borers
	Field crop pest insects	Cotton insect pests, sugarcane pest insects
	Flower pest insects	European corn borer, Spanish moth
	Forest tree pest insects	Bark beetles, gall makers
	Fruit and nut pest insects	Mango pest insects, fruit flies, stink bugs
	Greenhouse pest insects	Whiteflies, thrips, aphids, mealy bugs
	Nursery pest insects	Asian ambrosia beetle, tarnished plant bug
	Vegetable pest insects	Diamondback moth, potato pest insects
Medical pest insects (vectors and stinging insects)	Biting flies	Sand flies, black flies, stable fly
	Fire ants	Red imported fire ants, southern fire ants
	Mosquitoes	Aedes, Anopheles, Culex
	Wasps and bees	Honey bees, bumble bees, cicada killer wasps
Veterinary pest insects	Cattle pest insects	Cattle grubs, cattle tail lice, horn flies
	Horse pest insects	Stable flies, black flies, biting gnats, face flies
	Poultry pest insects	Litter beetles, poultry lice, bed bugs
	Sheep and goat pest insects	Sheep keds, sheep nose bots, African blue louse
	Swine pest insects	Hog lice, follicle mite, hog mange mites, flies
	Zoo pest insects	Black flies, biting gnats, horn flies, lice
Domestic household pest insects	Turf-sod pests	Mites
	Interiorscape pest insects	Ants, termites, bed bugs, moths, cockroaches
	Landscape plant pest insects, mites	Caterpillars, aphids, grasshoppers, mole crickets
	Urban tree pest insects	Gall wasps, oak treehopper, thorn bug
	Wood-destroying insects	Bamboo borer, wood-boring weevil