Sanitary pests mainly include: mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches (cockroaches), lacewings, bedbugs, mites, fleas, lice, ticks, gadflies, midges and so on.

Insect-borne diseases caused by sanitary pests: malaria, yellow fever, equine encephalitis, cholera, filariasis, encephalitis B, dengue fever, bubonic plague, typhus, regression fever, Scrub typhus, Lyme disease, Q-fever and so on.

Hygienic insecticides kill pests in the following ways: stomach poisoning, touch, fumigation and systemic.