Asian Beatles

[Boxcar Wllie]

Does anybody else have a problem with these? In our south facing kitchen they are always around. Does anyone have a remedy to these stinky little things?

We have some shrubs right in front of the windows but I have never seen the critters on them.

[hydro]

Unfortunately, the beetles you are seeing now have wintered over inside your house and the warm weather has woken them up. They will find any crack or crevice in the Fall that is warm and crawl through, often into the unheated attic spaces, hthen crawl inside to warmer areas during the Winter and Spring. I have then as well as Box Elder Bugs and my windows are full of them right now. Your best bet is to vacuum or dust buster them up each afternoon until most are gone. Not much else you can do.

[lookincalifornia]

my biggest problem with asian beatles is trying to figure out who is the leader. is it asian paul, or asian john?

i crack myself up!

[echo2010]

Unfortunately, the beetles you are seeing now have wintered over inside your house and the warm weather has woken them up. They will find any crack or crevice in the Fall that is warm and crawl through, often into the unheated attic spaces, hthen crawl inside to warmer areas during the Winter and Spring. I have then as well as Box Elder Bugs and my windows are full of them right now. Your best bet is to vacuum or dust buster them up each afternoon until most are gone. Not much else you can do.

I recommend putting a nylon over the extension hose of the v acuum. it will catch them in the attachment instead of letting it go trough into the bag and stinking the whole thing up

[hondarider550]

Originally Posted By: hydro

Unfortunately, the beetles you are seeing now have wintered over inside your house and the warm weather has woken them up. They will find any crack or crevice in the Fall that is warm and crawl through, often into the unheated attic spaces, hthen crawl inside to warmer areas during the Winter and Spring. I have then as well as Box Elder Bugs and my windows are full of them right now. Your best bet is to vacuum or dust buster them up each afternoon until most are gone. Not much else you can do.

I recommend putting a nylon over the extension hose of the v acuum. it will catch them in the attachment instead of letting it go trough into the bag and stinking the whole thing up

Thats a great idea echo!! I never thought of doing something like that... I hate trying to vacuum them and then have the vacuum smell like those bugs all of the time.

[snoozebutton]

I use duct tape, take a short piece and roll it up backwards with the sticky side out, then pick off the ones on the windows and TV screen. They can't get off it.

[WaveWacker]

I use Tempo pesticide. Doesn't stain/discolor (not that I've noticed) and kills them. Nice thing is that it "stays" around for a couple days and still kills beetles and box elder bugs when they come back out. Kind of expensive but you only use a couple of oz/gal (read label for exact amount. I can't remember for sure).

[fishermatt]

We used to have a big problem with these. Now we have an Exterminator spray the exterior of our house and garage in the fall around the middle of september. Don't know the chemical, but any bug that lands on the siding or windows will die within about 5 minutes. They never make it into the house that way, so in the spring we have no issues.

[Scott K]

Can you spray the house now, or will that be a bad idea, because they would all die in the siding?

[WaveWacker]

If they are coming out during the day I'd spray them when they are out. I know the Tempo works real quick (within minutes) and for the most part they die outside. I should have clarified that it kills the "bugs" that come back out. This refers to those that you didn't hit when you sprayed. I use it around the house, shed, barn, etc. Typically in the fall but spring if needed and there are piles of bugs laying dead shortly after. Leaf blower and they are blown off into the grass.

[paceman]

I hate those things. Touch them and your hands stink something awful.....

[Farmboy1]

We used a product called BugMax 360 that seemed to help. Spray the foundation on the outside, and it helps keep them out. We still have some, but not near what we have in years past.

I also had some friends do the exterminator thing. They got together with about 4-5 neighbors and the guy did all the houses on the block. It made it very affordable, something like $75 a house.

[WaveWacker]

I'm telling you Tempo is the way to go. Spray on bugs, foundation, etc. They die quickly on contact and keep dying as they come out/back. My buddy had them horribly bad last fall. Sprayed, waited a bit, swept off the dead ones on his entrance way. Continued to keep sweeping off dead ones for days without another treatment.

Not quite sure, but man I want to say that it's like a couple of oz./gal of mixture so a bottle goes a long ways.

[mskyfshntchr]

Bugg Maxx 365 is the way to go. It works for a year like it advertises. I sprayed in fall 2007 when I moved into my house. This past fall, I didn't spray and I had dead beetles around the house and none in the house. It's about $15 a gallon.

Works on asian beetles and box elder bugs.