Pest Gallery
Identify weird insects in our pest gallery.
Our Pest Gallery is your resource for the common and unusual pests we see in San Diego. If you find an insect you can't identify, send us a picture and we'll do our best to identify it.
Bed bug
Mosquito
Asian Tiger Mosquito
Drywood termite
American Cockroaches
Southern Green Shield Bug
American Cockroach
German Cockroach
Western Black Widow
Desert Tarantula
Spotted Wolf Spider
Tiger Centipede
California Carpenter Ant
Barbary Harvester Ant
Earwig
Asian Cockroach
Mediterranean Red Bug
Greene's Giant ichneumonid Wasp
California Root Borer Beetle
Black Housefly Pupa
Diabolical Ironclad Beetle
Yellow Jacket
Praying Mantis
Carpet Beetle Larvae
Photo credits
- Bed bug: (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Mosquito: (c) Duncan Brooks, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Asian Tiger Mosquito: (c) Rafael Carbonell Font, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Drywood termite: (c) Justin, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- American Cockroaches: (c) Steve Kerr, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Southern Green Shield Bug: (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- American Cockroach: (c) Steve Kerr, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- German Cockroach: no rights reserved (License)
- Western Black Widow: (c) Chris Stahl, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Desert Tarantula: (c) Michael Warner, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Spotted Wolf Spider: (c) Jared Shorma, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Tiger Centipede: (c) Michael Warner, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- California Carpenter Ant: no rights reserved (License)
- Barbary Harvester Ant: (c) Javier Sánchez Álvarez, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Earwig: (c) Emily Lowe, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Asian Cockroach: (c) i like lizards, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Mediterranean Red Bug: (c) Atalay Karakuş, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Greene's Giant ichneumonid Wasp: (c) adam1420, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- California Root Borer Beetle: (c) lander1950, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Black Housefly Pupa: Clemson University - USDA Cooperative Extension Slide Series, Bugwood.org (CC BY 3.0); cropped (License)
- Diabolical Ironclad Beetle: (c) William Walker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Yellow Jacket: no rights reserved (License)
- Praying Mantis: (c) Ram Dayal Vaishnav, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
- Carpet Beetle Larvae: (c) Jeff Clark, some rights reserved (CC BY) (License)
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