Anybody know any secrets on keeping asian lady bugs out of the house? I must have built this house on the motherload.

Not sure on the remedy, but it sure seems they can fit through the smallest of pinholes. They'll fill a window. Got rid of every Box Elder tree because of those bugs, now have these in summer.

I don't think anything is 100%. Spray permetherin around all doors and windows. It will slow them down. The permetherin will leave a film on glass though.

They are horrible here in the summer, like a never ending invasion.

Rather have them then black flies

I use "Tempo". I used to just spray around the doors and windows, now I spray the entire house minus the roof. Siding, doors, windows, soffit, facia, deck, and foundation.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ortho-Ho...r-2-With-Comfort-Wand-1-33-Gal/173879184 - this stuff ever couple or three weeks around the foundation, all the windows and doors will do a great job, works on the boxelder bugs too.

It was -31 below here this morning and I still get those little buggers in the house every once in a while. I am afraid to look in the attic.

In my finest voice I sing: " Lady Bug, Lady Bug-Fly away! House is on fire and your children at play!"

We usually just have them for a couple of weeks in the fall. The last couple of years we haven’t had many at all. Some years they are awful. Funny thing is many of the locals think the timber companies are releasing them to control pine beetles. Even had pest control guys telling people the timber companies were responsible.

This is what we use also. Fall can be a real mess with them things. We have farmers with soybeans here every year and that might be the problem???

The boxelders are all we have this fall and still into the Winter.

Y'all are wrong.
You need to go directly to the source.
Find out where that Asian lady lives...

I got a guy that sprays for skeeters 2 times a year, and asian beetles once in early fall.....handles em pretty well

Bugs or beetles.?
Depends on the season and the amount of aphids that build up in the soybean fields to feed the beetle larvae.

Just consider that ever Beetle larvae has eaten 10,000 aphids
What do you really want, sticky tree aphid sap going on your truck all summer= or one pesky beetle, well maybe a 1000 at a time.

She bugs me...

Used to only have an issue about 2 weeks a year. First warm week in spring and warm days in the fall. Sprayed Ortho Home Defense around the doors and windows. It worked great for 2 years. The few that came in were dead on the floor. Now nothing works and it's a year round problem.

.....lol

Thanks, I will try this. Wife just ordered it from Amazon.

Getting me some of this

Crap we have them both....