These things are a nuisance, and I've sprayed and swatted without eradicating them. My pest control office says not to bother as they can't even get them out of their own office.
They look like orange lady bugs. My problem is the high ceiling where I can't reach them. Even the long-range wasp spray doesn't kill all of them. Anyone?
What you descried isn't a Japanese Beetle but rather the Asian Lady Beetle. The best way to get rid of them on your ceiling is to vacuum them up. In your closets put some moth balls or camphor. Those things don't like string odors.
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So you vacuum the ceiling????
Whether Japanese Beetles or Asian Lady Beetles, somehow they got into your house. These beetles are, I think, what we used to call Lady Bugs.
Where I grew up in Ohio they would be real pests in the summer. I remember my father purchased a few Japanese Beetle traps and put them
outside around the yard. I don't know if these traps are even made anymore. They would hang from a slender iron pole that was pushed into
the ground. The beetles could get in but couldn't get out, and after a day or so just died.
The attached article might help: http://www.orkin.com/other/beetles/l...-lady-beetles/
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Dave, thanks! I'll call Orkin and don't care what it costs. I used Bell County Pest Control previously to get rid of mice, and it was their secretary who said they couldn't help.
My ceiling is vaulted, and vacuuming it is not an option without scaffolding.
Dave, thanks! I'll call Orkin and don't care what it costs. I used Bell County Pest Control previously to get rid of mice, and it was their secretary who said they couldn't help.
My ceiling is vaulted, and vacuuming it is not an option without scaffolding.
These beetles get in my house once in a while, but few and far between to it's easy to just pick it up and throw it outside.
Note that they do not respond to aerosol spraying much - in other words you are wasting $ and stinking up your house, although a bug spray/bomb once or
twice a year definitely would take care of any fleas or roaches that might get inside your house. Those kind you set off and walk away work good, just put newspaper
or an old rag under it wherever you set it down. I usually do the entire house at once - start in the back bedrooms and work into the den, dining room, living room then
kitchen, and abandon ship for a couple of hours. A couple years ago I set about 7 of these off in all the rooms and started hearing scuffling footsteps in the attic area.
Looked out the back porch and a raccoon with its baby clinging to it emerged from a small piece of aluminum siding and climbed all the way down the chimney and went
into the woods behind the house and down the hill. Never came back and I sealed the hole where it got in.
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These things are a nuisance, and I've sprayed and swatted without eradicating them. My pest control office says not to bother as they can't even get them out of their own office.
They look like orange lady bugs. My problem is the high ceiling where I can't reach them. Even the long-range wasp spray doesn't kill all of them. Anyone?
Those grubs that grow into beetles, especially the June bugs, are a pain. Used to be diazinon worked real good - spread it and water into the lawn.
But thanks to our friendly EPA, the potency had to be seriously curtailed. I don't know what to use on them now. I'm just thankful I haven't had
a problem with those things in a long time.
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I'm pretty much a lawn and garden geek, if a you get the grubs this year go to your local feed store they have 50 and 80 pound bags of cornmeal yes cornmeal the type you use in the kitchen, just throw the cornmeal the same way you would fertilizer the grub worms will eat it and in about 3 to 4 days you will see them popping up out of the grass they cannot digest the cornmeal they pretty much just blow up.
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