Box Elder bugs

[Gameface]

thanks Babe. with knowledge comes power... Or something like that!


And GF, I did have a small tree growing next to my house that I removed last spring, and that seemed to get rid of the bugs for quite a while. But they came back, not quite as many as before but still quite numerous. A friend who's an arborist says the nearest box elder tree that she knows of is more than a block away. But who knows, I may have to go snooping in the neighbors' yards.

Growing up there was a huge very old box elder tree right on the fence-line between my house and my neighbors. Besides that my neighbor had all his firewood piled up right against the tree. Man, it was a firebug paradise. If I had wanted to I could have filled a 50 gallon drum by just scooping them up by the handful. Millions of them everywhere.

 

[Scat]

Growing up there was a huge very old box elder tree right on the fence-line between my house and my neighbors. Besides that my neighbor had all his firewood piled up right against the tree. Man, it was a firebug paradise. If I had wanted to I could have filled a 50 gallon drum by just scooping them up by the handful. Millions of them everywhere.

Just think how many you could have burned if you lit the tree on fire...

 

[Ron Mexico]

anyone have an arsenal powerful enough to wipe out the latest infestation of these annoying critters invading my house?


I feel no remorse for squishing them to death. But it's so tedious and I can only get one at a time.


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Just what others have said, cut down any male box elder tree. The problem is you need to not have one within like a mile of you. Next step for me was a preventative bug spray on my house to keep them from landing in the first place. I also sealed up any cracks in the house and windows door jambs so they couldn't get in.

Lastly I killed many of them in front of their family and told them to tell their friends that is what will happen to every last one of them if they come to my house.

 

[Ron Mexico]

My neighbors had a detached shed full of grains that attracted mice, who bred and built mouse heaven. It was nasty. You walk in there and see at least 50 mice in the open and hundred behind everything. We went in once armed with pool sticks and clubbed probably 100 of them.

We plotted to catch some and launch them with balloon launchers at the police station but never actually did it. If I were a kid again I doubt I would pass this opportunity up twice.

One of my favorite things as a kid was taking eggs from our chicken farm and stock piling them near the top of this hill above a gym. The hillside was super steep and almost impossible to get up. If you drive it took about 7 minutes to get close enough to run to where we stood. About once every couple weeks a small group of us would bombard bro's leaving the gym. They would lose their **** and start screaming at us and try and climb the hill while we kept pelting them. Then we would causally walk away before they could drive around to get to us. Being a kid was great sometimes.

 

[Ron Mexico]

Haha, I didn't realize this was an old bumped thread but I did enjoy reading this.