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How to Get Rid of Ladybugs

July 10th, 2007 by MartinDodge
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Ladybug Exclusion

The first step in controlling them is to deny them access to your home. One year, you may witness a flock of bugs emerging from your house’s crevices in the spring. If you don’t do anything about them, they will increase over the following years. Inspect for areas where they may have gotten in or are living. During your inspection, don’t neglect the attic or crawl spaces. Ladybugs like to burrow under and between insulation and wood sheathing.

 

Liquid chemical treatments don’t do well in the attic. If you are going the insecticide route, instead, use deltamethrin dust. Seal any and all cracks and crevices. The areas around windows, molding, and light fixtures are also commonly used routes of entry that should be reduced or eliminated by injecting them with foam insulation. Some foam comes with a built-in insecticide.

Ladybug Repellents

Using insecticidal soap spray avoids potentially harmful chemicals and will kill them on contact, but has no residual effect and is therefore not an effective repellant. cypermethrinA chemical called cypermethrin, found in a number of products sold by building supply stores and nurseries, kills lady bugs on contact and drives them away from the house. It is sprayed on outside walls after filling in cracks, and its effect lasts several weeks. It needs to be sprayed at least three times a year until the problem disappears. After having sprayed outside, you may find a few have found their way into your living area. If you prefer not to terminate them with extreme prejudice and you set them free, make sure it’s at a distance from your home. There are also bug glue pads laced with pheromones that attract the bugs that then get stuck to the glue. This does seem a bit cruel, however. A lighted lady bug trap also uses the pheromone lure along with a UV lamp that lady bugs are also attracted to. The trap can hold hundreds of lady bugs, and it can be used inside or outside.

Ladybug Traps

zapperIf you prefer immediate and lethal results for the bugs flying about, you can play Obi Wan Kenobi, using a hand-held zapper instead of a light sabre (Learn how to make a lightsaber). You just hold this thing in a bug’s path (you can also use it on houseflies, wasps, and mosquitoes) and when contact is made, the bug gets a lethal dose of electricity. A bug zapper/vacuum will suck bugs out of the air, and you can decide whether to release it or whack it. You become judge, jury, and bug zapper. Cheaper than a zapper is an industrial vacuum cleaner. Put a thin cloth in the bottom, suck the bugs out of the air, take out the cloth with the bugs, and then decide their fate.

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  1. March 29th, 2010 at 6:28 am    toddyz250x@yahoo.com Says:

    I really dont have a tip but more a question i have use a vaccuum and even the bowl of sugar water and every year when the weather warms up my bedroom window literaly get covered with ladybugs and we just put new windows in about a year ago and i am having a hard time trying to get ride of them and they are starting to find my little baby so does anybody have any suggestions

  2. March 25th, 2010 at 2:08 am    Nicole Buhr Says:

    My house gets invaded by ladybugs over the winter and I don’t start to notice them until almost spring they start to come out of hiding and roam the house. I Started trying to kill them one by one and they stink when you squish them so I got a box and started catching and throwing them in there it didn’t seem too fun until my 3 year old son Vincent saw what I was doing and wanted to help now it’s kid of like a game for us to see who can get more in their box :)

  3. Amy (below) didnt read the article at all. It specifically said Do not catch them inside your house then set them free in your garden or you will have the same exact problem later. Although they can be a good thing for your garden if you are having issues w/your house being overrun w/ladybugs the whole idea is to get them as far from your house as possible. Not Keep them around… dont ya think?
    Ok down to more practical advice. Most the others are all good,some may work better than others depending on your home & how bad the prob is. In our case we tried the lemon candles & wiping down w/ammonia. It worked a little(we think), but between using a vaccum cleaner & the cypermethrin chemicle (we didn’t want to use chemicals but you do whatever you need to, people were starting to think we had ladybug wallpaper it got so bad). That chemical spray & vaccum seemed to do the trick. Good luck.

  4. circus and vacuum cleaners. I helps when you place citrus on windows, doors, corners, etc. Ladybugs can not escape vaccums. Also, make sure, when you’re trying to get them out of a certain room, turn on the brightest light on iin your home. Ironicly, bugs like the darkest places with is behind the brightest lights.

  5. ladybug are great gather them and throw them in the graden

  6. do not use benzophenone, it is a hazardous chemical. my house is infested with ladybugs, but I sure wouldnt use a chemical that will harm the respitory tract, its a pretty nasty chemical. just as bad as all the other **** they have you thinking is great.

  7. The Ingredient Benzophenone gets rid of them I have a friend who did that and she never saw anotherladybug.

  8. November 12th, 2007 at 7:11 pm    bug killer 2000 Says:

    Ok so first you have to get rid of the bugs you have already. A vaccuum works great. Then take a squirt bottle and fill it half way with lemon cleaner and the rest of the way with hot water. Then go to town spraying the inside/outside of all doors. It might not keep all of the bugs out but 95% of bugs gone isn’t bad.

  9. September 20th, 2007 at 7:47 pm    Auntie Sue Says:

    The foreign ladybugs that come inside for the winter do not like the wonderful scent of cloves! I saw a tip somewhere that suggested placing whole cloves around windows and doors, and even in larger light fixtures. It works! I put little caps, like from water bottles, full of cloves between the window and storm window, between the storm door and the main door, and in the rim of the big kitchen fluorescent light. No more ladybugs overwintering in my house!



 





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