Do insects go to a "home" (like bees) to sleep or do they just land somewhere randomly?

Question

Do insects go to a "home" (like bees) to sleep or do they just land somewhere randomly?

Answer 1

Some flies will sleep near the end of long blades of grass.

Stewart

Answer 2

Some insects are social and live together in colonies, including honeybees, some other bees, all ants, all termites, and some wasps.  (And some aphids, too.)

Some other insects are not social, but they do have specific places where they nest, such as tarantula-hawk wasps.

Many insects never really move much in the coarse of their live, such as aphids.

Some other insects that move around a lot as adults, such as flies, butterflies, and beetles, will find temporary resting places each evening.

We don't know much about sleep in insects; there's a bunch of disagreement but it appears that one species of ant sleeps several times a day, but for about 20 minutes or so each time.

Answer 3

I can tell you that grasshoppers of a certain yellow variety will leave a cotton field at dusk to roost in trees in the fence row or on the fence or in tall grasses. When the cotton reaches a certain height they will stay in the cotton at night.

They roost just like chickens.

This knowledge enabled us to poison the grasshoppers by baiting around fields or spraying poison on the fence line at dusk.