Insects and Other Arthropods of Public Health Concern
Text Box: Mosquitoes are probably some of the best known of the arthropods we work with in the lab. Click here to find information on how you can protect your home and family from these menacing vectors Text Box: Small, blood feeding true bugs that, until recently, were relatively rare in the Commonwealth and across the country.

Brown Recluse Spider

Black Widow

Common Spiders Around the Home

Scorpions in Kentucky

Ticks are another well known arthropod disease vector, most well known for carrying Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. 

Text Box: Phlebotomine sand flies are small, hairy true files, which are members of the moth fly family (Psychodidae). Text Box: Mosquitoes of Kentucky

Ticks and Diseases (Under Construction)

Spiders and Scorpions
Text Box: Bed Bugs Text Box: Sand Flies of Kentucky: New!

Critters of Concern

Kentucky is known to be home to about sixty different species of mosquitoes, at least two species of sand flies, a handful of tick species, and a number of additional biting flies and true bugs.  This list of biting arthropods found in Kentucky is not fully complete, but gives a general overview to the diversity of potential disease vectors found throughout the state. 

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