Why Crickets Keep Getting Into Your Shreveport Home This Summer
That chirping sound coming from behind your washing machine at 2 a.m. isn’t just annoying — it means crickets have found their way inside. And once a few get comfortable, you’ll hear more of them as summer goes on.
Anti-Pest helps homeowners in Shreveport, Bossier City, and surrounding communities deal with cricket problems every summer. Cricket activity often ramps up in July and August, and they’re surprisingly good at squeezing through small gaps around your home.
What’s Drawing Crickets Closer to Your House
Crickets don’t just randomly end up at your front door. A few conditions around your property may be pulling them closer.
Outdoor lighting is the biggest one. White porch lights, flood lights, and security lights are all cricket magnets. If you’ve ever noticed bugs swarming your porch at night, crickets are usually part of that crowd. Warmer yellow bulbs may attract fewer insects than bright white lights, which can help reduce the number of crickets gathering near entry points.
Moisture is the other draw. Clogged gutters that drip near your foundation, mulch beds pushed right up against the house, and landscape timbers that hold water all create the damp conditions crickets prefer. After a summer thunderstorm, the clay soil around Shreveport-area foundations stays damp for days. That lingering moisture is exactly what pulls crickets in closer.
Tall grass, leaf litter, and yard debris provide places for them to hide during the day. The closer that cover is to your house, the easier it is for crickets to move toward doors, garage openings, and porch lights at night.
How Crickets Get Inside
Crickets don’t need much of an opening. A gap under the garage door, a crack in the foundation, or a space around a pipe or utility line — any of these is enough.
Doors are the most common entry point, especially if the weather stripping is worn or if there’s a gap at the bottom. They also get in through windows that don’t seal completely, dryer vents, and openings around outdoor faucets.
Once they’re inside, they head for dark, quiet spots. You’ll usually find them hiding in closets, behind appliances, along baseboards, or tucked under furniture. Laundry rooms and bathrooms are favorite spots because of the humidity.
The Damage Crickets Cause Indoors
Crickets usually aren’t dangerous to people, and they aren’t known for biting or spreading disease.
Once inside, they often chew on fabrics. Clothing, curtains, bedding, carpets, and even wallpaper are all fair game. The damage looks like irregular holes or thinned-out patches in the material. It’s easy to blame moths at first, but if you’re hearing chirping and finding this kind of damage, crickets are the more likely culprit.
There’s a secondary problem, too. A lot of cricket activity around the foundation can also attract predators — particularly house spiders and scorpions. If you’ve been seeing more spiders near your doors lately, crickets could be the reason they’re sticking around.
How Anti-Pest’s Pest Plan Handles Crickets
If you’re finding crickets around entry doors, in the garage, or inside your home, the problem usually starts around the exterior.
Anti-Pest’s Pest Plan is a year-round home pest control program that helps stop crickets and other common pests before they enter your home. Our focus is on your home’s perimeter — the entry points where crickets actually get in.
During each service visit, our technicians treat the home’s exterior to help create a protective barrier around doors, windows, foundation edges, and other common access points.
If crickets have already gotten inside, we treat the interior too. The goal is to eliminate the ones in your home and help keep new ones from following.
Our Pest Plan covers crickets and 20+ other common house-infesting pests, such as ants, cockroaches, and earwigs. It includes quarterly pest treatments to help keep protection active through peak summer months and the rest of the year.
During each service, we’ll also remove spider webs from eaves and other exterior surfaces and treat fire ant mounds near your home. If covered pests show up inside, we’ll take care of that as well.
And if you see crickets or other covered pests between scheduled visits, Anti-Pest will return to service your home at no additional charge.
Keep Crickets Out of Your Shreveport Home
If crickets are chirping inside your home at night, Anti-Pest can help. Family-owned and local since 1950, we provide residential pest control for homeowners across Northwest Louisiana, including Shreveport-Bossier, Blanchard, Elm Grove, and Stonewall.
Contact Anti-Pest today for a free quote and ask about our Pest Plan for crickets and other common household pests.
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