Second straight apartment with insect problems. Are there any STL area apartments that don't have this? (Chesterfield: apartment complex)

[MichaelDouglas93]

A couple years ago I moved into a recently built apartment complex (won't mention the name), thinking that after several insect infestations in an older complex (everything from wasps to crickets to a blowfly infestation to clothes moths to giant spiders), and living on a higher floor, my problems would be over.

Nope. I have a cricket infestation on the third floor in this apartment. I'm sure the fact that the building has openings to the outside, allowing crickets to just walk right into the building (there are bugs everywhere in that area outside the actual apartments), doesn't help.

But what I gather is that it doesn't matter how high up you live...if they can find an opening into a wall somewhere in the building, they're going to colonize the whole building and crawl into any apartment they want, as they will then scale once they're inside the walls.

Does anyone know of or live in a place that they have been in for at least several years where they haven't really seen any bugs? A few months or one year doesn't count. The true test is if you have been there for several summers.

[Sundaydrive00]

I've never lived in an apartment with a bug problem. I've lived in Maplewood, Dogtown, and now Chesterfield. I've never even heard of anyone else having issues with bugs.

[MichaelDouglas93]

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

I've never lived in an apartment with a bug problem. I've lived in Maplewood, Dogtown, and now Chesterfield. I've never even heard of anyone else having issues with bugs.

Define "not a bug problem." How many crickets do you get in your apartment per year?

[Sundaydrive00]

Originally Posted by MichaelDouglas93

Define "not a bug problem." How many crickets do you get in your apartment per year?

I've never seen crickets in any place I've lived. The only bugs are the occasional moth or mosquitoes that get in from opening the door at night. Even having a fly in the apartment is extremely rare.

[MichaelDouglas93]

Originally Posted by Sundaydrive00

I've never seen crickets in any place I've lived. The only bugs are the occasional moth or mosquitoes that get in from opening the door at night. Even having a fly in the apartment is extremely rare.

Hard to believe. In my entire life, dating back to living in 4 different houses with my parents growing up, I have never NOT seen a cricket in my house here and there.

The only time I never saw a cricket was in college when I lived in the dorms. All 3 apartments I have lived in since, I had at least one per summer.

[billiken]

I also never had a bug problem at rentals in STL. I rented by SLU in the city, and in Clayton...but never for more than a year at a time. I hate bugs and this would drive me crazy.

[Sundaydrive00]

Originally Posted by MichaelDouglas93

Hard to believe. In my entire life, dating back to living in 4 different houses with my parents growing up, I have never NOT seen a cricket in my house here and there.

The only time I never saw a cricket was in college when I lived in the dorms. All 3 apartments I have lived in since, I had at least one per summer.

I have no reason to lie about crickets. I never see them inside. Maybe its the area you live in...

[FalstaffBlues]

Gasp! A bug!

Chill out.

I've seen the occasional bug in my place in StL. Never a cricket though

[flynavyj]

We used to get crickets in my childhood home on occasion, they were always just outside the sliding doors. But the home was built in the 50's and the metal framed windows and doors had never been updated, so guarantee there were gaps all over the place.

Only real CRICKET problem I experienced was in college. We had those giant mutant looking crickets in the basement area (never upstairs) but the basement which was unfinished was ALWAYS a nightmare for them. The only real down was the laundry was down there, so you HAD to go downstairs once a week or so.

Current house I'll get a cricket inside every blue moon, but nothing major. Pretty sure they find a gap in the french doors in the basement. Normally find them dead just inside those doors. I spray a barrier down, so it's never an issue of finding hoppers running around the home. Have had a few spiders too, likely from the same gap. But all in all, the house is fairly tight. And luckily, NO INFESTATIONS!