The Four-Week Bug Check
The BugSpotter method for finding out what is really living in your house before anyone sprays it: monitors where the risk is, four weeks of honest counts, every catch named as possible, and one of three answers for each bug
BugSpotter's free Trap Spacing Calculator counts sticky monitors for one room, the Spider vs Insect ID Key sorts a catch into insect, arachnid or myriapod, the Benign vs Nuisance Classifier sorts a species, and the Infestation Risk Checklist scores a whole house. Each answers its own question. None says which rooms to watch, and none says what four weeks of catches mean, which is where one spider in a bedroom becomes a whole-house spray. The check scores every room with the checklist's own weights, spaces monitors 10 ft apart where there is a risk point or a sighting and 20 ft elsewhere, counts them on the same day for four weeks, names each catch as possible, reads the trend, and gives each bug one of three answers: leave it, fix the source, or call a licensed professional. On the worked example, a house scoring 12 of 17 (High) gets 39 monitors in five rooms, where a flat 20 ft layout gives 27, twelve fewer, all in the risky rooms. Four weeks later: 70 catches, 26 of them hunters, one spider in the bedroom, silverfish rising with 70% on the two traps by the water heater, and German cockroaches in 3 of 4 weeks. The answer is a dehumidifier and sealed gaps, and one professional visit for the kitchen. Every figure is computed by our calculators; the house, rooms and catches are examples, and the spacing, trend reading and three answers are rules of thumb. No key can identify a medically significant spider and nothing here is a basis for treating a bite; it carries the bite red flags, Poison Control, pesticide label and glue-board safety lines. Included: 25 printable pages with seven steps, a room plan with a sketch grid, a weekly catch log, an ID card, a decision card, reference tables and a quickstart, plus a personalised sheet worked from the numbers you enter in our calculators.
What’s inside
- The Risk-First Rule: every room scored with the Infestation Risk Checklist's own weights, and the rooms with a point or a sighting watched first
- The Tight-Where-It-Counts Rule: monitors 10 ft apart where there is risk, 20 ft elsewhere, never wider
- The Edge Rule: where each monitor goes, the even gap along the walls, and numbering that never moves
- The Same-Day Rule: four weeks of counts by species on the same weekday
- The Possible-Until-Confirmed Rule: legs, antennae, wings and body length to a possible name, and who can confirm it
- The Trend Rule: the last two weeks against the first two, the two busiest traps, and the season
- The Three-Answer Rule: leave it, fix the source, or call a licensed professional, species by species
- Printable working pages: a room plan with a sketch grid, a weekly catch log, an ID card and a decision card
- Reference tables: monitors for common rooms, the checklist's weights, the seasons, and the sixteen household bugs with their first answer, plus a quickstart
- A personalised sheet worked from the numbers you enter in our calculators
Run one of the free calculators first and buy from that page, and this sheet is computed from your own figures. Buy from here and the pack still arrives complete — the sheet simply has no numbers of yours to work from yet.
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