Insects Are Invading My Privacy

The world is filled with questions. About the past, about the future, about the present even, but there is one question I would love to have answered: why do insects randomly appear in my home? Now, there are the obvious reasons: maybe someone left a door or window open, maybe your little sister brought it inside with her (it might have flown into her hair or onto her backpack), or maybe your house is that poorly insulated, and that’s where this problem gets tricky. I know that my house, for one, is sealed up tighter than a vault when the windows and doors are shut tight, so how do these little buggers (ladybugs, spiders, pine bugs, and the like) manage to get into my humble abode without my knowing? I could just be that oblivious about giant holes in the walls of the house, but I sincerely doubt that’s the case. We have screens, locks, and seals (not the mammal) to keep our lovely house secure, yet somehow insects manage to squeeze through the cracks to appear on and disappear from my walls without a trace.

This may seem like a silly argument, or straight-up paranoia, but this issue has been on my mind since childhood. And before you go out and question my sanity for spending so much time thinking on this, I have to say that this has been a problem I’ve dealt with for as long as I can remember. The house I lived in until recently was just as sealed off as the one I’m in now, yet somehow hundreds of ladybugs, daddy-long-legs, spiders, ants, and pine bugs were able to find their way into every room over and over again. My sister and I would come home from school and run into our rooms only to find little ladybugs scattered over the walls, ceiling, and floor without any visible cause. Or I would be walking into my dad's office, and on my way out I would see a spider on the wall that clearly wasn’t there before. Once or twice my sister even found a bee that managed to get into her room. We were baffled, and I, for one, still am. It’s not as if there aren’t screens on our windows, but that just begs the question of how a pine bug the size of my thumbnail manages to get in through holes that are no larger than two millimeters wide. I’m sure that having creepy-crawlies in the bedroom is something that nobody wants, and, personally, I can’t stand having anything that crawls, scurries, or flies in my home at all, so I would like to know how a bug can outsmart both me and two square feet of mesh wire. Maybe there is no definite answer to this question (yet) but I know that I cannot be the only person who wants to know. Hopefully there will soon be a well known way to keep critters with six plus legs out of my room, because I’m fairly certain my dad tired of hearing me scream about spiders.