We suggest you treat your eaves and soffits with Buggslayer. If they are congregating in a certain area, the mixture can be applied to SIDING, porches, screens, patios, window frames or other areas where they may gain entrance to the structure.
Buggslayer is water-based, odorless, non-staining and can be used on siding, etc.
It is very important to treat these pest outdoors before they can find shelter in your outside walls. Any insects (box elder bugs included) that actually make it all the way indoors signals you may have a significant infestation on your hands. Some may come in around doors and windows but if you are seeing these pests all winter, you may have hundreds sleeping in your walls.
What do you do if these are already inside? Most experts recommend you just vacuum them up with a bagged vacuum cleaner and dispose of the bag in the trash. They will smell if you grab them with your hand. If you try to use an insecticide labeled for indoor use, they will most likely die in an area inaccessible to your cleaning efforts (inside the walls, attic, crawl space, etc.). After that, their bodies will tend to smell and their parts can cause allergies and other health problems (similar to dust mites).
We treated the siding of this home on October 10th, 2008 using a jet-stream hose-end sprayer delivering 1.5 oz per gallon of Buggslayer. On October 13, the area received 0.39 inches of rain and a trace of rain overnight on October 14-15. The pictures of DEAD bugs below were taken the morning of the 15th.
NONE OF THESE BUGS WERE SPRAYED DIRECTLY
which shows the RESIDUAL PERFORMANCE of BUGGSLAYER.
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