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This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.
Mammals
- Mice
- Field mice
- House mice
- Possums
- Brushtail possum
- Ringtail possum
- Rats
- Black rats
- Brown rats
- Wood rats
- Cotton rats
Invertebrates
- Ants
- Argentine ants
- Carpenter ants
- Fire ants
- Odorous house ants
- Pharaoh ants
- Thief ants
- Bed bugs
- Beetles
- Woodworms
- Death watch beetles
- Furniture beetles
- Weevils
- Maize weevil
- Rice weevil
- Carpet beetles
- Fur beetles
- Varied carpet beetles
- Spider beetles
- Mealworm beetles
- Centipedes
- House centipedes
- Cockroaches
- Brown-banded cockroaches
- German cockroaches
- American cockroaches
- Oriental cockroaches
- Dust mites
- Earwigs
- Crickets
- House crickets
- Firebrats
- Flies
- Bottle flies
- Blue bottle flies
- Green bottle flies
- House flies
- Dampwood termites
- Subterranean termites
- Woodlouse
See also
- Home-stored product entomology
- List of notifiable diseases
- Noxious weed
- Pest (organism)