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Two Pests That Thrive In Melbourne Gardens — And Push Inside Your Home
Crickets and earwigs are both outdoor pests by nature — but Melbourne’s climate drives large numbers of both species indoors, particularly during hot, dry summers and after heavy autumn rain. High cricket populations bring a relentless chirping that disrupts sleep, while earwigs appearing in bathrooms, kitchens, and bedrooms in large numbers cause genuine alarm.
Beyond the nuisance, both pests can cause real damage — crickets chew through fabric, carpet, and stored food, while earwigs feed on seedlings, flowers, and vegetable gardens, causing the characteristic ragged-leaf damage that ruins months of planting effort. Critically, large cricket and earwig populations around your home attract spiders — particularly Redbacks and Huntsman — that prey on them. Reducing cricket and earwig numbers is one of the most effective ways to reduce overall spider activity around a Melbourne property.
At Good Guys Pest Control, we treat the garden harbourage zones, building perimeter, sub-floor, and entry points that allow both pests to build up around and inside your home — delivering lasting results backed by our guarantee.
Our 3-Step Cricket & Earwig Eradication Process
1. Property Inspection
We inspect the full property — garden beds, mulch areas, decking, retaining walls, sub-floor, garage, and the building perimeter. We identify the species present, locate the primary harbourage and breeding zones, assess the population level, and identify every confirmed entry point into the building structure. Because both pests are strictly nocturnal, we focus on daytime hiding sites — beneath pots, under decking, in mulch, and along damp wall junctions — rather than the insects themselves.
2. Targeted Perimeter & Garden Treatment
We apply a residual insecticide spray to the building perimeter, garden borders, sub-floor vents, decking surrounds, and all identified harbourage zones. A granular bait product is applied to garden beds, lawn edges, and mulched areas where crickets and earwigs breed in large numbers — both pests feed on the bait and die before they can migrate inside. Internal treatment is applied to skirting boards, sub-floor access points, and any rooms where significant indoor activity has been confirmed.
3. Handyman Exclusion & Habitat Modification
Unlike standard pest controllers, we are also licensed handymen. We physically seal the gaps under doors, broken sub-floor vents, cracks around window frames, and weatherstripping gaps that crickets and earwigs are actively using to get inside. We also advise on immediate habitat modifications — reducing garden mulch depth against the building, improving drainage, and clearing debris from the foundation zone — that remove the conditions that sustain high populations season after season.
Cricket & Earwig Species We Treat
Understanding the specific species and their behaviour determines exactly where we treat and what products we use for the most effective and lasting result.
Black Field Cricket
The most common cricket species encountered in Melbourne homes and gardens. Large, shiny black, and up to 30mm long. Black field crickets are primarily outdoor insects that live in lawns, garden beds, and dry soil, but push indoors in large numbers during hot, dry summer conditions in search of moisture and cooler shelter.
The males produce their signature loud chirping by rubbing their wings together — a sound that is tolerable from a garden but intensely disruptive when crickets have established inside wall voids, sub-floors, or garages. They are also attracted to external lights at night, which draws them to building entrances and increases indoor migration.
Our Solution: Granular bait applied to lawn and garden areas combined with residual perimeter spray along the building base and around external lighting positions. Internal harbourage zones treated with residual spray. External lights are flagged for relocation advice where they are directly contributing to indoor migration.
House Cricket
Smaller and yellowish-brown with three dark bands on the head, house crickets are an introduced species that can establish permanent indoor populations in warm, sheltered areas of Melbourne homes. Unlike black field crickets that are primarily outdoor visitors, house crickets breed and complete their lifecycle indoors — in roof voids, wall cavities, sub-floors, and behind appliances.
They are omnivorous and will chew through fabric, carpet fibres, stored food packaging, and even synthetic materials when populations build up. Their chirping indoors at night is the most reliable sign of an established house cricket infestation.
Our Solution: Residual spray applied to all internal harbourage zones — sub-floor, roof void, wall junctions, and behind appliances — combined with targeted perimeter treatment to prevent continued entry from outdoors. Entry points are physically sealed as part of the same visit.
European Earwig
The most common earwig species in Melbourne — Forficula auricularia. Reddish-brown to black, 10–15mm long, with the distinctive forceps (pincers) on the tail that give the species its alarming appearance. Despite their look, a pinch is only mild and brief, but they cause real garden damage.
European Earwigs feed nocturnally on seedlings, flower petals, and vegetable plants, leaving irregular ragged holes in leaves commonly misidentified as slug or caterpillar damage. By day they shelter in groups in tight dark spaces — under pots, inside rolled hose, beneath bark mulch, inside decking gaps, and under damp cardboard or newspaper. They migrate indoors during extended hot, dry weather and after heavy rain, appearing in bathrooms, laundries, and kitchens in sometimes alarming numbers.
Our Solution: Granular bait applied to garden beds, mulch areas, and lawn borders combined with residual perimeter spray along the building base. Treatment of known daytime shelter zones under decking, garden structures, and pot bases. Internal treatment where indoor activity is confirmed.
Brown Earwig (Native)
The native Brown Earwig — Labidura truncata — is larger than the European Earwig and is actually considered beneficial in the garden, as it preys on aphids, caterpillars, and other pest insects. It is generally not a pest species and is treated with care.
However, when native earwig populations build up to very high levels near buildings — particularly in properties adjacent to bushland or large established gardens — they can push indoors in large numbers during weather extremes.
Our Solution: Where possible, we focus on exclusion and habitat modification rather than broad treatment for native brown earwigs, preserving their beneficial garden role while sealing the entry points that allow them to push inside during weather events.
Note: The old myth that earwigs crawl into human ears while sleeping is completely unfounded. Earwigs are harmless to humans and pets — they do not seek out people, do not bite as a matter of habit, and a pinch from a handled earwig causes only momentary, minor discomfort. Their harm is to plants and garden produce, not to people.
What’s Included In Our Cricket & Earwig Treatment?
We leave nothing to chance. A standard Good Guys Cricket & Earwig Treatment covers every zone where both pests harbour, breed, and enter your property.
Inside The Home
Residual spray applied to all internal skirting boards, door frames, and floor-level wall junctions where crickets and earwigs travel after entering the building. Particular attention to laundries, bathrooms, and garages where internal activity is most commonly reported.
Residual spray applied to the sub-floor of elevated homes where both crickets and earwigs harbour in damp, dark conditions before migrating up through gaps in the flooring into living areas.
For properties with confirmed house cricket activity in the roof void or ceiling cavity, residual spray and dust is applied to eliminate the internal breeding population responsible for the persistent indoor chirping.
As licensed handymen, we physically seal the gaps under doors, broken sub-floor vent covers, cracks around pipe penetrations, and damaged weatherstripping that both species are using to move between garden and interior.
Outside The Home
Heavy residual spray applied along the full building perimeter — external walls, foundation base, and pathways — to intercept crickets and earwigs migrating from the garden toward entry points in the building structure.
Granular bait applied to garden beds, lawn edges, mulch zones, and the soil around retaining walls where earwig and cricket populations breed. Bait is consumed nocturnally by both species and eliminates the outdoor population before it reaches the building.
Treatment under and around decking, garden retaining walls, pot bases, and outdoor furniture — the primary daytime shelter zones for earwigs during the day and cricket harbouring areas in the garden.
Residual spray to garage and shed interiors, garden shed bases, and compost bin surrounds where both crickets and earwigs establish in large numbers in stored organic material and damp conditions.
Why Choose Good Guys?
The Handyman Advantage
Crickets and earwigs push inside through gaps that spraying alone will never close. Because we’re licensed handymen, we seal those structural entry points on the day — something no standard pest controller offers.
Guaranteed Satisfaction
We use commercial-grade residual products and targeted granular bait that deliver lasting results. If crickets or earwigs return within the guarantee period, we come back and re-treat at no additional cost.
100% Pet & Child Safe
Once the spray is dry — around 20 minutes — treated areas are completely safe for children and pets. Granular bait is placed in garden zones inaccessible to domestic animals and uses low-concentration formulations.
Licensed & Insured
Victoria Wildlife & Pest Control Licensed. $20M Public Liability Insurance. Professional, qualified technicians on every job.
Victoria Wildlife & Pest Control Licensed. $20M Public Liability.