1 simple trick to keep bugs away from your porch light

[@guntimes9908]

Red lights work the best. But then your neighbors might thing you're running a brothel. 😎

[@joanfrellburg4901]

Roxanne...

[@SushiSlayer671]

😂

[@JohnWickkkk]

😅😅 😂😂

[@gypsyhayes5954]

I have a yellow light specifically for this and watching bugs swarm around it as I watch this video.

[@moises75434]

Lmao

[@erik5983]

Same

[@JennyOwnzable]

Same. I have a yellow light and they're so many bugs there every night.

[@ericennis967]

I don't need to comment just came in and bugs around my bug light 😅

[@arieschick004]

I liked just for that intro alone.

[@sonnymoneygg]

I done both because of this guy ⬆️

[@misslayer999]

Lol same here

[@stevemougeotte7273]

I thought I was high watching that wavy background…was I?!? Lol. Love the intro. I’m subscribing just for that. And the fact your videos give of psychotropic effects. 🤣🤣

[@kathyroach4660]

I've had a yellow flood light on my front porch for 30 years. Bugs are always flying around it.

[@TechyRodsWire]

Same

[@Assata_Shakur]

They have yellow led lights specifically to keep bugs away now! Thanks for the tip!

[@justinburris2888]

Yellow lights have been lauded for this purpose for years if not decades. Problem is it just attracts FEWER bugs especially if there are any white/blue/ultraviolet lights within sight like at a neighbors house. But it does NOT repel or even attract zero bugs. So it’s an improvement but not a cure

[@timbeckman1134]

The delivery on The Bugs They Don't Like the Yellow Light deserves an Oscar

[@lifeonmarrz8792]

Absolutely love the intro!! Dope 🔥

[@37geese]

I switched my front porch to a yellow light several weeks ago.....made no difference...bugs still swarm around it.

[@thebewitchinghour831]

We had spot lights on our front porch and yellow didn't work either. I bought RED flood lights. Not a single bug and lights up the walk perfectly.

[@MG-ij8zt]

It Sure doesn’t. I have a million bugs and beetles. So upset!

[@ckl5590]

Yellow doesn’t work at all for our house. We swapped all our outdoor lights for yellow and I was still cleaning them off twice a week. They also made my house look ugly.

[@123thebasics]

So glad to see I’m not the only one that has failed with the yellow light. My house is white too so I guess that doesn’t help. I’ve had one red and one yellow flood light over my garage/driveway since Halloween and no bugs there…guess I’ll have to try it on the porch.

[@joanfrellburg4901]

'Artificial light can disrupt insect navigation, resulting in confusion and disorientation. This can make it more difficult for nocturnal insects to find mates,or locate essential breeding habitats and food resources. Insects attracted to outdoor lights often get caught swirling around them, making them easy targets for predators or causing them to die from exhaustion. Luckily there are some simple steps you can take to reduce light pollution around your home. Dr. Tallamy recommends installing motion activated lights and replacing white light blubs with less disorienting yellow bulbs. ' - Penn State College Of Agricultural Sciences

[@riffdex]

I’m so confused half the comments say it works, other half says it doesn’t. One says the bugs are attracted to heat, so make sure to use LED, another says the LED don’t filter UV fully so to use incandescent. Can I get some straight answers from those who had success, what type of bulb and style did you use? Is it a bulb that is warm to the touch? And what part of the world are you?

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

I'm in the midwest USA in Ohio, so I can only vouch for my neck of the woods.

[@tacroom12]

Currently looking for a video on how to keep bugs away from my YELLOW porch light.

[@TechyRodsWire]

Hahaha this is true and funny

[@OnTheWaySoon]

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[@pete3103]

bro I actually thought I was drunker than I was even asked myself If I was high but your head and background is wobbling hahahahaha

[@SophieMia806]

Thank you for this video, especially for the part about the apartment security light. I was going to ask about that, because I live in an apartment with a permanently fixed bright white LED security porch light, and wasn't sure how to adapt it to keep the nasty June bugs away. I will try the yellow construction paper, and hope that my apartments don't say anything to me about it. Also, I wish where I live (Dallas/Fort Worth TX area), we got to wait until July before the bugs start coming out. We start getting June bugs in late March. They're all over the place outside right now, 4/16/2022. They creep me out. LOL Anyway, thank you again for the tips! I will try it out. :)

[@joeschmo622]

Bugs definitely go for the blue part of the spectrum, and I'm not sure how much blue/UV leaks through curly bulbs (UV light excites phosphor coating the inside of the glass). LED lights are similarly coated, but start with blue and not UV. 2700K is good, 2200K-2000K even better. Me, I just slapped in a GE dusk-to-dawn bulb, the all-glass ones. Not the usual photosensors that have a fixed on/off threshold, these seem to "learn" over time what's day/night, even on sunny vs cloudy days. I don't normally recommend actual brand names, but the GEs are actually quite nice, and better than the usual snow-cone bulbs.

[@ericamessick7745]

I have a yellow bulb next to my door and the bugs love it. What else can I do? I get home from at 1:30 am and I’m fighting mosquitoes and bugs coming into my house.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Spray Raid around the light. Or a product like ortho home defense. Raid washes away but ortho stays longer and is designed for that but the sprayer sucks, it’s only good during the first use. If it rains a lot where you are Raid is especially bad and it’s bad for the environment too. Currently researching other products but that’s what to do!

[@niji8310]

Try putting a bug trap nearby. Mix vinegar, water, and dish soap in a bowl and leave it out near the light. Should catch a good portion of bugs, hopefully.

[@gc4692]

Lol, searched this up exactly on July 3rd, 2019... 3 years exactly since youve posted

[@wannamartinD45]

I switched to Sylvania "Bug Lights" that are yellow, and it doesn't do a thing to stop these annoying bugs and webs from forming around my homes entrance. My house looks like it could be used for the Musters or Addams Family shows. They come back the next evening after cleaning them off the lights and door. These are driving me nuts. Is there any spray or chemical I can use to spray the area to fend them off? YELLOW LIGHTS DO NOT WORK FOR THESE INSECTS!

[@IronAxeGaming1]

is the camera high

[@arman-go4bw]

ThatDudeInTheComments vana be high quality video 1080p

[@thebullwhisperer916]

I still get them with the yellow light. What is their purpose? One of my least favorite bugs. Maybe mine was too cheap.

[@patrickmorrison6253]

thank you very much it works and spend alot on pest spray . i painted my yellow all has gone

[@crystalkyle7298]

Do you still get enough light through the paint? Do you mind telling me what kind of paint you used?

[@Pmomma100]

Love the intro 🤣🤣

[@AdrenalineCrew]

How to many bugs go away, make your lights look like crap. Good one…

[@iMr.Jetpacks]

It works! The yellow bulb works

[@naamek-]

Idk wtf your camera was doing but I felt like I was high af on shrooms while watching this

[@MrRene1968]

Bring those news to the bugs were I live, they don't seem to know it. I have tried yellow light, Halogen lights. Termite don't see to mind at all. Gekos love it, they have feasts around yellow lights, its a buffet out there.

[@u-5ee3zk1w]

Use a black light bulb because bugs are racist.

[@AncientHippie]

Funny thing is that in our last home the yellow bulbs worked perfect no measurable bugs for many years. We recently moved and yellow has NO effect here (I took the bulbs from the last house). So this is my new quest, find a new solution.

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

The QUEST!!!

[@thinktankindi2664]

Same issue. They evolved to resist...lol.

[@ToFresh319]

I’m using yellow light and bugs are still crazy ughhhh been using it for a few months now

[@jdubdoubleu]

Is it LED?

[@MultiLisa10]

@@jdubdoubleu Is that the problem? The light has got to be not LED?

[@jdubdoubleu]

@@MultiLisa10 most led bulbs emit blue light, bugs love this. Better to have a warm led bulb. Yellow/orange hue. No bulb will reduce bugs to zero (Not even a bug light), but your best is to go with a warm color led

[@eggchin9721]

I get swarmed by moths when I leave my front door it's annoying. Some of them get in

[@jdubdoubleu]

@@eggchin9721 just replace your porch Light with a motion sensor

[@alfredrice4863]

If there is other light present bugs will choose them but if only a yellow light we’ll some light is better than none to a bug

[@elizabethlove4856]

Doesn’t the paper catch on 🔥 you said you used construction paper on your spot light in your old house? Those get really hot..

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

No, it was an LED porchlight

[@crystalkyle7298]

Can you tell me what the name of the yellow paper you're using. Our lights around our outdoor bar are not a simple bulb to replace so I'm looking for a yellow translucent tape to cover the plastic.

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

This was a theater lighting paper they use to color the big spot lights across the stage

[@utseay]

Does the paper not get hot / catch on fire?

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

This particular product does not, as it is designed for stage light fixtures. But even at my last house I used construction paper and it was fine.

[@JimmyGunXD556]

what if I don't like yellow lights

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

Then you would need to use some kind of bug zapper/catcher I suppose. This is what has worked for me with great success.

[@fatonkosova6212]

Or you would need to like bugs

[@Negentropy369]

Lmao

[@jc-zh9kl]

Can you use a yellow light instead of yellow paper?

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

Yes, I would think that would have the same outcome

[@Jack-Surreal_Panes]

Those June bugs still come

[@carlyc3931]

I love bugs! How dare you! But my mom hates the big on are so thank you for the tip. Sometimes I step on the them, or sometimes it appears out of nowhere so yeah. Thank you and your intro is cute too I agree with the girl that said that. :)

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

Thanks Carly!

[@carlyc3931]

Thank you

[@SpriJones]

skip to :48 for the answer.

[@Voiced606]

No wonder bugs don’t fly around my lamp in my room when bugs get in the house

[@InspiredByEbonyLove]

It’s October and I’m so sick of bugs! The flung one and the spiders.

[@joemasters2270]

Haha loved that intro XD

[@vincent5318]

Thumbs up for the intro

[@TheGrmany69]

So that's why Japanese lanterns never get bugs inside.

[@athanasiatammy9041]

I just turned my yellow light off because a million bugs were swarming it. Yellow lights don’t work.

[@Anew1008]

Ok so no solution for the back security light gee thanks! Big help! 🙄

[@georgesimpson3113]

LED! they don't give off whatever wavelengths attracts the bugs.

[@beentertained3484]

Does not work bugs go for the heat

[@alrac6803]

Doesn't work. Bugs still flew towards our yellow lights.

[@stoneyb6183]

The song is everything and will it rid of beetles

[@danielsolis9041]

What if I want more bugs!

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

I would recommend a blue light bulb. A lot of bug zappers I have seen use a blue light. I've never tried it before but that's what I would wager would work

[@mahmudhussain4381]

If i use red light instead of yellow????pls reply

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

Mahmud Hussain I can't say for certain but my guess is that red will be less effective

[@avidrationalist7281]

Didn't work man, I used a yellow colour cellopane to cover the bulb, but it didn't work, insects and fliies swarm in to the bulbs...

[@_baert]

0:44 for answer

[@KrazyKhris]

Maybe they think it’s a flame.

[@krystlemansueto6915]

Yeah we bought yellow bug lights before it doesn't work

[@DBK155]

What about bugs that congregate around the door in the daytime

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

Is your porchlight on during the day ?

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

@@DBK155 that's a head scratcher

[@Fishingtuts]

Yellow bug lights don't work.

[@johnbelvin5216]

It did reduce the quantity for me.

[@udik3946]

I Recommend this video

[@tonymurtagh3588]

Am i high?

[@thebullwhisperer916]

Yahuah Baruk you in abundance!

[@Paula-vr5rm]

😂😂😂😂 the music

[@cindypattana6071]

Does not work.

[@rleonaf]

i will try with my one yellow light but i bet these annoying TX bugs will still fly around it i hate it🙄

[@eggchin9721]

Did it work Leona?

[@chynabarnescb]

cool....I will try (I hate bugs)

[@miriamvivo4279]

Does not work

[@lukez9721]

You need led lights. The bugs are attracted to the uv light

[@lynettebendixsen4328]

It didn't work!

[@amandabr9562]

Can't see with a yellow light.😤

[@stbam1965]

Keep light off

[@LOCOSCLAN718]

Doesn't work.

[@elvispetersen4081]

tf

[@creditrepairwizards]

yellow bulbs only gte you so far .. your still going ot have bugs FYI the paper he put in the fixture is going ot casue a fire

[@SpiritofaHandyman]

Actually I didn't use paper, it is a gel sheet, designed to be placed against super hot stage lights. www.stagelightingstore.com/818819-Oversized-Gel-Sheets

[@FastEddy5]

First off, learn how to spell! Second, pay attention! Third, it's still a better solution to the problem then doing nothing at all. Forth, repeat reading the first and second! Smartass!

[@primeoctober]

I have a yellow lamp in my bedroom and recently very small bugs that look like gnats have been getting in the house,i found out that they were in my room and i turned on my light and as usual they were flying around it. The next morning i woke up,a large portion of them were dead. Also,i think they have been nesting in my room because there are strange holes right on the wall behind my lamp and if i can remeber clearly,those were not there before.

[@lukez9721]

Sounds like they might be termites.