How can I keep ladybugs out of my home?

Joh7666350
by Joh7666350
Does anyone know how to keep ladybugs (Japanese beetles) out of your home ? Or when they get in how can you get rid of them?
  13 answers
  • Wendyshoe Wendyshoe on Jan 25, 2017

    I always thought they kill aphids. Do you have plants that might need treating. My friend used to buy them for her plants.

    • LDodd LDodd on Feb 01, 2017

      Ladybugs, particularly the yellow/brown lady bugs, can be brought in with plants and find nooks and crannies around windows or baseboards, etc. to lay their eggs. The ones we had one year stunk like crazy, especially when crushed.


      When you first see the bugs begin to appear, spray all around inside every window -- they'll be attracted to the light almost immediately and the spray will kill them -- hopefully before they can mate and lay eggs. You'll have a mess of them to clean up the year you spray but a lot less of them, if any, thereafter.


      Also, do patch/fill any nooks and crannies they might be using to get in or in which they might lay eggs.

  • William William on Jan 25, 2017

    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.

  • Pamela Norton Waggoner Pamela Norton Waggoner on Jan 25, 2017

    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

  • Stella Love Stella Love on Jan 25, 2017

    Lady bugs are not Japanese Beetles

  • Linda Maher Linda Maher on Jan 29, 2017

    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

  • Thelma Thelma on Jan 30, 2017

    Lady Bugs are totally different from Japanese Beetles. Lady bugs are great for gardens.

  • 18579179 18579179 on Jan 30, 2017

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  • LDodd LDodd on Feb 01, 2017

    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.

  • Ag Castor Ag Castor on Feb 11, 2017

    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.

  • Claude Claude on Feb 11, 2017

    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).

  • Mary Anne Mary Anne on Feb 12, 2017

    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.

  • Lou Lou on Feb 13, 2017

    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.