My House is covered with ladybugs.
2006-10-18 08:32:19 · 5 answers · asked by Deborah A 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Studies at some leading universities have found the best way to control them is to get three tubes of caulk and a caulk gun and go around the house and fill every crack and hole you can find, especially on the south and west sides. It's a lot of work but these Asian ladybugs get between the outer wall of the house and the inner wall. If they find a hole in the inner wall, well, then they are in your house. Once there the best control is a vacuum.
The beauty of caulk is it works for years and it keeps out a lot of other pests like spiders, ants, millipedes, etc.
You other option is to get a hose-end sprayer and spray the sides of your house with malathion or sevin. This will kill most of them before they can get between the walls. The downside is you have to do it every year. The first year may be an emergency and your only option but do you really want to have to spray your house every year? And who wants to live in a house coated with pesticide?
Go for the caulk. I did it and I had exactly 3 of them show up in my house all last autumn and winter.
2006-10-18 09:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by college kid 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh man I had this a couple years ago and it was terrrrrrible!!!
I didn't totally get rid of it, but I went to a hardware store and got wire screen (like what they have in windows) and I had to tape it up over every opening in my house. Like my window A/C unit, vents, windows that weren't 100% sealed or that didn't have a screen already. This did help a good amount, but a few of those suckers still managed to find their way in somehow.... Other than that I don't really know... I do know this though - DONT SMASH THEM!! They emit a foul-smelling odor when they are smashed. They aren't really ladybugs, they're asian beetles of some sort that were brought over here to get rid of some overgrown plant years & years ago, but then the beetles started to infest areas and now they are a problem... Good luck with them - I know how annoying it is!
2006-10-18 08:41:12 · answer #2 · answered by meercat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady Bugs are the most widely used and best known form of biological pest control. Famous for their control of aphids, Lady Bugs will also consume large numbers of whitefly, mealybugs, scales, mites and many other soft bodied insects as well as bollworm, broccoli worm, cabbage moth and tomato hornworm. Lady Bugs will consume up to 1,000 aphids in it's lifetime in both their larvae and adult stages and work well in garden and greenhouse settings.
You might be better off with the Ladybugs.
2006-10-18 08:43:32 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always heard these are the greatest bugs to have in your garden because they eat pest insects and leave the plants alone. I also hear they bring good luck, so you got something going there!
I also saw on the Discovery Channel that there's a market for these bugs. Call your local nursery and see if they're interested in picking them up so they can sell them.
2006-10-18 08:37:23 · answer #4 · answered by sunseekerrv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toss in a squirrel and call the Russians. That'll spell trouble for moose and squirrel.
2016-05-22 00:05:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋