Tim LeBel lives in Michigan, and he says that the hot wet summers up there tend to attract a lot of flying, jumping, biting insects, who especially like to congregate near any type of burning light. They flock like insects to the porch lights, and if they’re not restrained, they go for the house lights. They can be seen bouncing off the screen door trying to get to the living room lights, or hanging out at the porch light waiting for someone to walk past them so that they can have themselves a drink and a blood bath.

The worst part is walking past the porch light where they all attack, and then hang on for dear life waiting for you to drag them indoors. This is definitely not a pretty picture, and it can be painful for whoever finds himself or herself the reciprocator of the insect’s affection.

So Tim solved the problem buy using his ActiveHome products just a little differently. Rather than turning on the porch light just before he arrived home as so many of our customers do, he turned the porch light off instead. That’s right, just before he reached his house he turned off all the lights. That would take away any motivation an enterprising young insect might have regarding locating and finding dinner near a light bulb. "This deters bugs from hovering near the doors and allows us a chance to get into the house without all the unwanted guests," Tim said.

So Tim and his family can have the lights on while they’re away so that any would-be prowler would think that they’re home, but as soon as it gets time to enter the house, then off go the lights, away go the bugs, and the family can enter the house without tracking in the other pests. This is a great solution to an old problem.

"It’s too bad, though, that you couldn’t come up with a way to get rid of the insects all together," Tim laments.

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