If you have bugs active on your home like roaches, ants or springtails, they will most likely be most active during the night. In general, most insect pests are nocturnal so if you need to find where they’re active around your home, get outside after dark with a good flashlight.
Any side of the home with plants would be a good place to start looking. Be sure to check around air conditioning units, decks, patio’s, night lights and windows.
The following video shows active SPRINGTAILS on door saddles as well as window frames above plants growing alongside the foundation. These areas have become infested and currently have nesting springtails. At night they’ll forage out to reproduce. Males leave sperm packets for females who find them and move out away from their nest to start new families.
Any unsealed window can lead the females inside where new families will be started.
And though other small pests can enter the same way (like ants or psocids), most get to fascia boards and from there, get into attics where they disperse throughout the home through the walls.
The short list of pests which forage at night includes SPRINGTAILS, CARPENTER ANTS, TERMITES, ROACHES, CAVE CRICKETS, CLOVER MITES, MOSQUITOES, EUROPEAN HORNETS, STINKBUGS, SPIDERS, WASPS and PALMETTO BUGS.
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