ok.....yes i know that they are helpful in killing other insects but i dont care........i want them out of my house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!please someone help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-18 10:49:01 · 10 answers · asked by singing_piano24 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
I would not bother trying to fog them out. Pesticides are dangerous and you couldn't possibly find all of the places that they hide. We had an invasion in our house and it lasted about 5 years. It was a stinking (literally) nightmare. We just always had the vacuum cleaner out and vacuumed them up whenever we saw them. This is the first fall that we haven't been invaded. There are a few in the house right now but nothing like the past. The first day a migration happened we had probably 3 or 4 thousand in our living room...it sounded like a bowl of rice krispies in the house with those horrible things banging on the ceiling. The vacuum cleaner was part of the decor from September until May the following year. The reason we had so many is that we live in a log cabin that needed chinking at the time. Just keep vacuuming until the cows come home. Every once in a while suck some baking soda into your vacuum to get the smell out.
2006-10-18 11:03:14 · answer #1 · answered by DeborahDel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HOUSE?
For about 7 months out of the year everybody is glad to see ladybugs. They are good luck, are fun to watch and it means they are out in your garden controlling pests the way mother nature intended pests to be controlled. The rest of the year ladybugs are looking for a nice warm spot to over-winter, sometime in your house.
There are many theories as to why ladybugs choose one house over another, color, location, plants in the garden or how the house faces the sun. None of that really matters, you just want them out of the house.
Take a nylon stocking and stuff it down the hose attachment of your vacuum cleaner leaving the cuff to hold on to, then vacuum the ladybugs up, the nylon saves the ladybugs from getting chopped up. Release them in another area, put them in the refrigerator until spring or give them to a friend with a green house. Ladybugs collected now will hibernate until mid spring between 33 and 40 degrees, if your milk doesn't freeze or spoil over-nite the ladybugs will do just fine. Do this every time you see a ladybug, it maybe a pregnant female and if you don't know what that means there are other web sites you should be checking out.
If the problem is ladybugs outside spray them with the garden hose or blow them with a leaf blower. Upsetting them helps with the urge to move-on. It may take awhile but eventually you will get the upper hand, the more ladybugs you have the longer it may take.
2006-10-18 11:01:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 16:09:42 · answer #3 · answered by college kid 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the girl insects have hibernated all wintry climate on your residing house and are literally shifting outdoors. you are able to vacuum them up, yet they are exceptionally a lot going to go away on their personal. i'm shocked you probably did not see them very last fall at the same time as they moved in. similar element is happening with stinkbugs in some elements.
2016-12-04 23:34:34 · answer #4 · answered by molder 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had them invade my house before too... they're just trying to get warm and hibernate. You may need to fumigate if you can't just smush them all. Easy solution and it'll get rid of anything else you have too!
2006-10-18 10:54:12 · answer #5 · answered by Kaosmunki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a home center there must be a spray that is effective.
2006-10-18 10:56:07 · answer #6 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
spray air freshener, but not the one that smells like flowers.
2006-10-18 11:09:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
get enough if them and palnt places will buy them from you.
2006-10-18 10:55:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
open a window??? or close a window to keep them out
2006-10-18 10:55:43 · answer #9 · answered by STORMY K 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Don't! They're good luck..
2006-10-18 11:00:02 · answer #10 · answered by xxxcerealfordinnerxxx 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋