Bugs Due to Heat?

Shake some Comet type cleanser around the base of your house. I hear bleach works too. Check for something that you feel comfortable with at the nearby lumberyard or garden store. There are pet and human friendly ideas. It is because it is summer that they are coming. My husband hates bugs and he plugs in his sonic bug chaser things. Don't really know that they work, but he swears by them.

Yes it is the heat, but don't worry about crickets, are harmless, we have possums, babies who wandered into our home, we put them on our patio behind our shed cause we have 3 adult possoms living there, we have spiders and in the evening moths, the kind thatget into cereal, and flour sruff like that the best things we can do is close all doors before dusk, and bomb a at least once a month. J.

Hi C.,
Bugs come out in hot weather its disgusting isnt it lol!! And yes, Ive definately been killing more in my home lately. We never have roaches in our house, but during the summer its inevitable. We live on property where my back yard is basically a small river and the area between the river and our back door is covered in leaves and a few dead mangoes (breeding grounds for bugs: moist, damp, dark, with lots of food). Since summer started, I have killed a centipede, huge cane spider, 3 roaches, and about a billion ants. Hang in there, when summers over you'll notice they're gone.

Hi there! For ants and some spiders, put a little cornmeal where they are coming from. This does the trick and it's also kid safe. But a pest control program really solves the problem. We use Antac. They come every other month and just spray outside the house. We haven't seen ants in years, only occasional spiders. They have other treatments for that, but I'd rather keep the chemicals outside, so I don't mind the occasional spider. Good luck!

we use Orchin . We were having a terrible time with ants before orchin . As clean as we could be they would come out when it rained or was hot , whenever . So frustrating . Spiders to . Now we never see an ant , yes an ocassional spider .Much better than before . good luck

I just had to comment on the crickets. Last year, at the end of summer, I started hearing crickets in the house, under the kitchen sink and under the water heater. Over the course of the following several months I would hear one in either or both locations several nights a week. I also got rid of maybe 20 to 30 of them during the same period of time. The funny thing is, in the past month or so, I have only heard them outside. I don't know why that is, and I keep wondering if I will hear and see them again when summer is over. But yes, they are harmless.

We use LLoyd's pest control. They periodically spray for all bugs. Now it is a surprise to see ants at other people's homes.

Before we had the bug service though, I used baby powder to create a barrier.

Us too! Glad to hear that I am not the only one. I am new here, so I don't know if this is normal or not.