Farms, croplands, old fields, hedgerows

Ants
More than 700 species in North America

Apid Bees
About 1,000 species in North America north of Mexico


Assassin Bugs

Nearly 200 species in North America north of Mexico



Venomous


Auplopus Spider Wasps
Auplopus spp.

Barn Spider
Neoscona crucifera

Bee Flies
About 800 species in North America

Black-and-Yellow Garden Spider
Argiope aurantia

Blister Beetles
More than 400 species in North America north of Mexico

Blow Flies (Bottle Flies)
About 84 species in North America.

Bold Jumper
Phidippus audax


Brown Recluse (Violin Spider)

Loxosceles reclusa



Venomous


Camel Crickets (Cave Crickets)
About 150 species in North America north of Mexico

Chinese Mantis
Tenodera sinensis (formerly T. aridifolia)

Click Beetles
Approximately 1,000 species in North America

Cockroaches and Termites
About 100 species of cockroaches and termites in North America north of Mexico

Dotted Wolf Spider
Rabidosa punctulata

Dung Beetles (Tumblebugs)
Subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae

Earwigs
Forficula auricularia, Euborellia anulipes, and others.

Eastern Carpenter Bee
Xylocopa virginica

Eastern Dobsonfly
Corydalus cornutus

Entypus Spider Wasps
Entypus aratus, E. unifasciatus, E. fulvicornis, and others

Field Crickets
Gryllus spp., Acheta domesticus, and other in subfamily Gryllinae

Furrow Orbweavers
Larinioides spp.

Green June Beetle
Cotinis nitida

Green Lacewings
About 85 species in North America north of Mexico

Ground Beetles
About 2,400 species in North America north of Mexico

Honeybee
Apis mellifera

Horntails
About 28 species in North America

Horse and Deer Flies
Tabanus, Chrysops, and related genera

House Cricket
Acheta domesticus

Ichneumon Wasps
More than 5,000 species in North America

Ivory-Marked Beetle
Eburia quadrigeminata


Japanese Beetle

Popillia japonica



Invasive


Land Snails and Slugs
Approx. 150 species of land snails and slugs in Missouri

Large Crane Flies
More than 500 species in North America north of Mexico

Leaf Beetles
About 2,000 species in North America

Longhorned Beetles (Borers; Sawyer Beetles)
About 1,000 species in North America north of Mexico

May Beetles (June Bugs)
Phyllophaga spp.

Mayflies
More than 600 species in North America north of Mexico

Millipedes
More than 900 species in North America north of Mexico

Mud Daubers
Three genera: Sceliphron, Trypoxylon, and Chalybion

Nursery Web Spiders
Pisaurina spp.

Paper Wasps
Polistes spp.

Rabid Wolf Spider
Rabidosa rabida

Sand Wasps
More than 1,200 species in North America north of Mexico

Scarab Beetles
About 1,700 species in North America north of Mexico

Soil Centipedes
Estimated 4,000 species globally

Spider Wasps
About 300 species in North America north of Mexico

Squash Bugs
Anasa tristis and other Anasa spp.

Stag Beetles
About 40 species in North America north of Mexico

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