Learn More: Insect Bites & Stings
Bugs That Bite and Sting: The Usual Suspects!
| Perpetrator |
Bite |
Sting |
Characteristics |
Where Found |
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✓ |
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- body and feet are covered with bristling hairs
- the tongue is coated with sticky glue
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- warm climates and moist spots such as manure or garbage piles
|
 |
✓ |
|
- can be up to 2 inches across
- distinguishable by a red hourglass mark on its belly
- approximately four red dots marking its sides
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- damp places such as stumps, woodsheds, and woodpiles
|
 |
✓ |
|
- smaller than a black widow spider
- distinguishable by a violin-shaped mark on its back
- can inject two different types of poison
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- warm climates and dark, dry places where flies can be found
|
 |
✓ |
|
- brown in color
- Can be mistaken in appearance with the brown recluse spider
- can inject two different types of poison
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- resident of the fields and urban areas
|
 |
✓ |
|
- soft body with a head, a thorax, and an abdomen
- two narrow wings
- The mosquitoes' eggs are hatched during spring
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- aquatic habitats such as lakes, ponds, and marshes and places where water can collect
|
 |
|
✓ |
- most bees have black bodies with many yellow or brown markings
- bodies covered with hair
- two pairs of wings
- antennae
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|
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|
✓ |
- red or yellowish in color
- from 4/100 to 2/10 of an inch, or 1–5 millimeters in length
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- household kitchens and pantries, grain, and vegetable crops
|
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|
✓ |
- about 3 inches long
- eight legs with a pair of crablike pinchers
- stinger at the end of its tail
- most likely to sting during cool evenings
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- found in cool, damp places such as basements, junk piles, and woodpiles
|
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|
✓ |
- two pairs of clear wings
- six legs
- Straight, flexible antennae
- the stinger is tucked into the tip of the female wasp's abdomen
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- shrubbery, hollow trees, under houses,
and mouse nests
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