These organisms are beneficial to our environment, but they can bite or sting. For that reason, humans may consider this list of critters to be pests. The common name is listed first. The Order is parenthesized.
- Ants, bees and wasps (Hymenoptera)
- Ants
- Bees
- Wasps (cicada killers and digger wasps, velvet ants and cow killers, paper wasps, hornets)
- Velvetants (velvet ants, cow killers)
- Caterpillars and asps (Lepidoptera)
- Centipedes and millipedes (Non-insect arthropods, Class Chilopoda and Diplopoda respectively)
- Conenose (kissing) bugs (Hemiptera)
- Fleas (Siphonaptera)
- Flies (Diptera)
- Black flies
- Horse and deer flies
- Horse flies and deer flies of West Virginia (large PDF)
- Mosquitoes – Mosquitoes are flies with sucking mouthparts. All other flies have rasping or biting mouthparts.
- Stable flies
- Mites and ticks (Non-insect arthropods, Order Acari)
- Mosquitoes
- Scorpions (Non-insect arthropods, Order Scorpionida)
- Spiders (Non-insect arthropods, Order Araneae)
