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How to get rid of ladybugs from your house?

Date: 01,11,2021

Author: Aosion

Ladybugs may be helpful gardeners, but they might not be welcome in most people's houses. If you find ladybugs in your house and want to know how to get rid of ladybugs. This article might help.

For many people, finding a ladybug in the day is a kind of good luck. Actually, these small and spotted creatures(also called lady beetles by many people) are mostly very healthy for the environment. They eat up aphid infestations and other harmful bugs in people's gardens.

However, if ladybugs break into your home and birth their babies in your house, a cute sighting might turn into big trouble. Let's see how to get rid of ladybugs in your home safely and quickly. We’ll also introduce the ways they might get back into your house, where they hibernate and birth, and how to lead them back into your garden where they would be helpful to your garden and yard.

This article will help you know more about them and how to get rid of bees and wasps:
· Basic knowledge of ladybug

· What are the benefits of ladybugs

· What is the disadvantage of ladybugs

· Why do ladybugs enter into your house

· How to get rid of ladybugs

· More articles about get rid of other pests

Ladybug basics

Normally, ladybugs wouldn't be found single in your home or garden. Actually, this kind of little beetle mostly travels from a nearby colony where hundreds of ladybugs are born and grow up together.

Good for garden and most outdoor environment

Farmers like ladybugs a lot because they eat aphids and decrease the aphid population, while aphid is known for damaging crops. Ladybugs would lay their eggs near the larvae of aphids. So little ladybugs would be able to have a good meal as soon as they’re born. This further helps low down the aphid population in a garden or yard. Protects the vegetable or flower at the same time.

However, please note that there are thousands of lady beetle species. Some of them are helpful to your gardens and yards. But a few species that look very similar to ladybugs might even feast on your plants. Such as the Mexican bean beetle, Japanese beetle, etc... If you find a non-spotted red beetle eating the leaves in your garden, you might face trouble.

Not good in the house.

Although ladybugs do not present any threat to the wood or fabric in your homes like other creatures. And normally they do not bite humans. But they can lightly bite or pinch if they feel threatened. Some people would experience allergic reactions to these small attacks, including a rash, welts, sneezing, or itchy eyes. Ladybugs would lay up to 1000 eggs in their lifetimes. If they set up their home in your house, you might find the numbers become more and more over time.

Why do ladybugs enter into your house?

Ladybugs would be attracted by the warmth and safety of your house. Or they can also be attracted by the houseplants you planted in your house. They may creep in through windows, under doors, throughout basements, and in drainage pipes. That's why people normally find ladybug colonies in corners of rooms or windows.

Normally, ladybugs enter into people's houses in the colder months to find a place to weather the winter. They can even emit trails of pheromones to attract their friends to come to their new homes. Ladybugs typically live for an average of one year. They urgently need to find a warm, dark, and protected area to lay eggs in the autumn and before winter comes.

How to get rid of ladybugs?

Though ladybugs do not pose a major threat to your health or furniture, it is not a comfortable thing to let them set up their homes and raise their babies in your house. Prevention, removal, or relocation are 3 ways to get rid of ladybugs, even if they already set up homes in your house. Here are the top tips to get rid of ladybugs from houses:

1. Sweeping and vacuuming
As simple as it may sound, gathering up ladybugs with a dustpan or vacuum cleaner is one of the easiest ways to remove them. For example, vacuum up a large group of ladybugs and immediately empty the vacuum bag outside your house. Physically relocating their homes will stop more ladybugs from joining them together in your house. After they are removed, wash the area with soap to clean any chemical trails that attract more ladybugs.

2. Dish soap
If your infestation has grown out of control and it is too difficult to simply remove their homes, dish soap is a simple way to get rid of a large range of small bugs in your home. Spray their homes with soapy water or leave a bowl that combines soap and water near a light source where they gather. The thickness of the soap keeps the ladybugs from leaving the water easily.

3. Duct tape
If the ladybugs in your house are hard to reach. You can wrapped around your hand or finger with duct tape. So that you could safely remove them and relocate them outside. You can also simply leave duct tape out to act as an easy trap.

4. Diatomaceous earth
Diatomaceous earth offers an easy way to kill bugs in your home. The white powder can be easily found online or even at your local home repair store. Sprinkle the powder around the places ladybugs often appears. Not only get rid of the ladybugs in your house, but also prevent new groups.

5. Light trap
It is not difficult to make a light trap suitable for ladybugs with common items in your kitchen. Cut a plastic soda bottle in half and flip the top half into the bottom portion to create a funnel. Add an LED light into the funnel, leaving room for the ladybugs to enter the bottom of the bottle. The beetles will flock toward the light but then get stuck in the trap. Then you can release outside.

6. Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum is a plant that ladybugs particularly hate. When the autumn comes, you can fill your home, garden, and porches with chrysanthemum. Since autumn is also the season when ladybugs are looking for a place to stay for the winter, the smell of the chrysanthemum will keep them away.

7. Natural repellent
Some herbs and essential oils would also help get rid of ladybugs from your houses. Before trying to use them, make sure to check if they are safe for children and pets. Mix them with water in a spritzer bottle or a normal bottle. And spray them across the areas where the bugs normally appear. Normally you could use:
- Lavender oil
- Citronella
- Lemon or orange oil
- Cloves or clove oil
- Bay leaves

8. Chemical repellent or killers
You can also find a lot of ladybug repellents and killers online. Many of the sprays aim to keep ladybugs from gathering and kill bugs if they get touch with the dried spray.

9. Physical repellent
If there are babies or pregnant women in your house. Or you do not want to use chemical products that might be harmful to your family and pets. You might try ladybug repellents by ultrasonic and electromagnetic. To keep them away from your house and without any effect for human beings or pets. Nor any effect to your other electric devices like your tablet, phone, PC, etc...

You may be interested in the following:
· How to get rid of voles?

· How to get rid of skunks?

· How to get rid of bees and wasps?

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