How to keep bugs away from front porch light
Porch lights positioned directly next to the front door attract mosquitoes and insects that attack people trying to enter the home. Since moving the fixture is not an option, the swarms gather every night and leave dead crickets and grasshoppers on the doorstep each morning.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Turn off the porch light
- 2Use a yellow tinted bulb or bug lightbulb
- 3Install a motion sensor light
- 4Use a small fan nearby
- 5Spray bug repellent between the door and screen door
- 6Swap exterior bulbs for yellow bug lights
- 7Keep outdoor lights off at night
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My front porch light is right next to my front door, so moving the light is not really an option. At night, bugs and mosquitoes gather around it, and then they are basically attacking people when they are trying to come inside my home (its that close).”source ↗
“Every morning I wake up, open my front door, and there's a new dead cricket/grasshopper right in front of the door. Then I walk to my garage, and my sticky traps have caught a new cricket/grasshopper. This happens literally every night.”source ↗
Where this came up
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