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If you’ve ever experienced problems with earwigs as a homeowner, you know they can be an issue both indoors and outdoors. While they don’t cause any structural damage to your home, they can create messes, destroy vegetation, and leave foul smells. But you may be wondering why earwigs are attracted to your home. Here’s why earwigs are attracted both inside and outside your house.
As with most pests that enter your house, earwigs are mainly looking for shelter and food. While they won’t destroy your house’s foundation like other bugs, such as termites or ants, they are looking for a safe place to hide and call their home. Most of the time when you do find earwigs living in your house, it’s because they are looking for an escape from extreme temperatures.
Your home also gives earwigs an endless food supply. Earwigs will eat almost anything from rotting food and garbage to any type of fruit, vegetable, or plants. Even things like crumbs in your kitchen or dining room, spilled drinks, or any other small messes will attract earwigs to the inside of your house.
Once inside your home, earwigs can multiply extremely quickly, so it’s important to keep an eye out for them. They’ll typically gain entrance to your house through the smallest cracks or gaps in doors or windows.
Earwigs are not only attracted to the inside of your home but the outside as well. If your yard has any moist, hidden areas, they can bring earwigs to your home rather quickly, especially if you have any wet or rotting leaves in these areas as well. This decay gives earwigs the perfect place to hide and access to vegetation as a food source, whether it be naturally occurring or a garden you have planted in your yard.
If you find that earwigs are in or around your home, there are several home remedies you might try to get rid of them. But sometimes home remedies don’t work. If that’s the case, or if you would just rather leave it to the experts, hiring professionals is always the most efficient and effective way to deal with earwigs. At Nature’s Gate Sustainable Pest Control, we can help you rid your house and yard of earwigs and prevent further infestations from happening. Contact us today to schedule a time for us to come out and inspect and treat your home with pest control for earwigs.
