How to get rid of box elder bugs

Warm water, dawn liquid dish soap, sprayer. They will die in minutes

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You will never be without them, that is just the fact of nature. All you can do is attack them when they come to you.

Martha, I am not sure what the links provided by Bobbie and Cheryl advises, but I spray mine with a mixture of water and dawn dish soap. Just a drop or two of dawn and fill the squirt bottle. Advised to put the soap in after the water, or you will end up with mostly suds.

oOh, Michele again, you have box elders because there is box elder maple growing near by. The females eat the large clumps of "helicopters" that stay on this tree through the winter, which is one way of identifying the tree. Short of cutting the tree down there isn't much else you can do.