How can I keep ladybugs out of my home?
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I always thought they kill aphids. Do you have plants that might need treating. My friend used to buy them for her plants.
Look for any inside openings around windows and seal them up. Check for any openings or gaps on the outside of windows also. I worked as a Maintenance Tech for a nursing home and we would have lady bug invasion every year on the main floor. All the landscape bushes attracted them. They loved to congregate in the corners of rooms. We would just vacuum them up with a shop vac.
Farmers brought them in as a natural way to get rid of aphids eating their crops. When there is no supply, they fly to another area. If your plants outside or inside have them, the ladybugs will find their way in to them. My successful stopping them was to spray the outside of my home with a product called Demand CS. It's a microencapsulated product that has tiny beads of insecticide in it that burst open over a 90 to 120 day period of time. It only takes about a tablespoon for 1 gallon of water, so the bottle lasts a really long time. Put it in a pump sprayer and treat around your windows, doors and eves. We used it for this and for yard treatments when I was in the pest control industry. It's safe for inside and outside use, and once it's dry, it's safe for the pets and people to walk on it. I still use it at my home now. You can purchase it from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=demand+cs
Lady bugs are not Japanese Beetles
You can use mint or basil, check it out: http://www.hometalk.com/diy/outdoor/pest-repeller/q-ladybug-problem-inside-home-what-to-do-15449563 Good luck!!
Ladybug problem inside my home...what to do ?
This is the site to see which you are having the problem with it has pictures of each.
http://www.diffen.com/difference/Asian_Lady_Beetle_vs_Ladybug
Lady Bugs are totally different from Japanese Beetles. Lady bugs are great for gardens.
Hello, I know the advice might be silly coming from a flooring professional, but essential oils lightly sprayed throughout the area where the ladybugs are really helps; plus it's all natural and not harmful at all.
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Japanese beetles are attracted to light as well and the same thing that worked for the brown/yellow ladybugs for me should work for Japanese beetles, too.
Ladybugs are beneficial insects. They come inside in the winter, will not harm anything in your house, and will leave in spring. Thank your lucky stars you have these nontoxic, natural controls for the aphids that attack garden and wild plants, and protect them happily.
Japanese beetles are different, looking like scarabs. They are an invasive species that are very destructive to plants. They do not swarm the way ladybugs do. Feel free to dispose of them in any nontoxic way you can.
Stink bugs stink when you crush them. So do ladybugs..it's a defense mechanism. Japanese beetles are something entirely different. They overwinter in the Lund as grub larvae...so if it's them, they are in a plant dirt that was outside...and then brought inside. Don't use poison in the house. Get some yellow sticky tape. It attracts bugs and they stick to it. You might have to change it a couple of times and use a clean one..they do attract bugs. Stick it on a popsicle stick or a disposable straw( like a mini flag).
Talcum power on window sills and door thresholds for a few days, then vacuum. Also please go to http://www.almanac.com/pest/japanese-beetles
I would be VERY cautious about using chemicals in the house. What is bad for the bugs is also bad for humans. Essential oils like cedar, orange, peppermint can be purchased on Amazon .com . Put a few drops on a cotton ball and wipe areas where they enter the house. They won't.
I think you are referring to the Asian ladybugs. I live in an old farmhouse (140+ years), so there's no way to bugproof it. When my neighbor grows soybeans, my house becomes their winter home of choice (not nearly as bad the year after he grows corn). Anyway, folks laugh at me, but when I find a ladybug on a lamp or table I pop it into a ziplock plastic bag along with its friends! At intervals, I put the bags in the trash. After a while, no more ladybugs in the house, or at least, not so many! They are attracted to the warmth and light of lamps and, in the spring to the bright light in the windows, so they are easy to round up.