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LOU from WI · Oct 2, 2011

Always in the fall ,when it gets up to 65-70o the Asian beetles swarm the deck,door ways, window screens, and any where they can get in.Victor is outside with the sprayer for the umpteen time since they came to Wis. sure would love to gather em all up and deposit em to the residence of the jerk who's wise as$%# idea was to bring em over here.We did have 3 shop vac's going one year catching em and setting em on fire. Had at least 1,000 of em over a weeks vacuuming .Would think that would slow the population down in the coming years. NO SUCH LUCK.Now their back as strong as before. Wonder if Dave 2 has people skill lessons for me if I ever run into the jerk who started this mess. Done ranting LOU.

RN · Oct 2, 2011

(Teasing alert!) you need to go along with mama nature and get a "green/organic" control. See if zoo has some Anteaters/Aardvarks that would like some fresh snacks and tie them outside the door. Boric acid/borax known to work on cockroachs, also works on many other insects, varies depending on bugs. Vacumm the bugs, dump bugs in blender with table spoon of veggy oil and tablespoon of cider vinegar, pulse until smooth and dilute with water 1:1 and spray/splash around doors, porch, side walls, might need a shot of dish soap. The smell of dead species bugs tends to deter others- this is know organic gardening trick for protecting plants and green houses. Fench in back porch and get flock of guinie hens to protect doorway, use the bird droppings in garden. Have a cup of coffee and think about practicing tap dance with cowboy boots on bag of the bugs-- might consider spiking coffee with some 80 proof stuff. This give you some idead or chuckles? RN

Ultradog MN · Oct 2, 2011

Be glad you don't live along the Mississippi.
This is one of several stories I found that talks about the Mayflies being so thick that they have to use snow plows to push them off the bridges.
Mayflies

spacecadet9 · Oct 2, 2011

for a few years we've been using Cyper Eight by Bonide. We spray on the south side of the house (back door). It doesn't kill all of em but sure does get a lot of them down. There are several attractant /bag products that are suppose to keep them away from the house/door. I want to try some this season. The neighbor hasn't started combining his soybeans , and the temps have been warm enough so the buggers haven't started looking for a place to winter, yet.

larry@stinescorner · Oct 2, 2011

here in nj and pa we have whats called stink bugs! They are a pain too!

spacecadet9 · Oct 2, 2011

(quoted from post at 15:34:56 10/02/11)Mayflies being so thick that they have to use snow plows to push them off the bridges.
Mayflies

I don't know about a plow, but on the bridges with a solid deck there could be enough crushed mayflies to make it slick and hard to steer. Plus, you couldn't see out the windshield because of all the suicidal mayflies striking the vehicle.

Greyhorse · Oct 2, 2011

How about putting a light bulb over a tank of water with some veg oil on top of it. That works on june bugs.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 2, 2011

Lou, it COULD be worse...
Invasion of Crazy Ants

S2710 · Oct 2, 2011

LOU I live south of you a ways by LaCrosse and we get the beetles in the fall when the farmers combine the beans. What I have been doing for the last 4 or 5 years is I spray the house with a product called PESTABS. I just mix up a batch and spray the south east and west sides of the house and it will knock them down. It will last for a month or so. Last year it was a week after I sprayed and the big push came and the sidewalk in front of the house was red with dead beetles. You can buy it at your local coop or farm and fleet. I mix 2 tabs with 2 gal. water and that is all it takes. Ultradog I remember one time in LaCrosse where they had to get the snow plows and sander out to keep the bridge open from the Mayflies.

Bob

Ron A Anderson · Oct 2, 2011

Tempo is a product that works for those beetles and other bugs. grasshoppers and crickets come to mind. It lasts about a month then you have to spray again.

fixerupper · Oct 2, 2011

You must have had a high population of soybean aphids in your neck of the woods this summer. The beetles live on the apids and the more aphids there are, the more beetles you will see. We had low aphid populations in my neighborhood, I didn't even have to spray for them, and I haven't seen many beetles this fall. Jim

gregk · Oct 2, 2011

usually just as bad here, however this year I found the best defense ever. A month ago it hail to beat h3ll! It took 24 hours before I even saw a gnat! This fall I haven't even seen an asain beetle. However on the other side there are no crops left either, hence no aphids.

Joneil · Oct 2, 2011

One year they were so bad the entire back wall of the barn was covered in them. We had a dog then that wasn't very bright. He would lick up a big mouthful and chew them up, you could hear them crunching in his mouth. Then he would make a face like it was the nastiest thing he ever ate, and have his tongue out trying to spit out the chewed up bugs. Then he would do it again.

LOU from WI · Oct 2, 2011

Great humor. lol. Well any way it's night time now and Victor killed several hundred with a product called "SEVEN" and the Asian beetles are sleeping peacefully on the ground.The beetles are nothing more then a cheap solution to aphids problem . Spraying would keep the aphids under control and not the #@$#$%^& BEETLES BOTHERING MOST FOLKS. THERE ISN'T A BEAN FIELD WITH IN 20 MILES FROM ME.Aphids aren't my problem till the Asian beetles were thrust upon me and the neighbors.Nothing like setting down to a meal and have one of em drop off the ceiling into your food.They try to become croutons.Good solution would be to package em up with hamburger helper for a really crunchy dinner time treat. Better yet, have one crawl in your ear while your asleep. YEHAAAAAAAAA. Still on a rant. LOU.

tjdub · Oct 2, 2011

We have them terrible here. My farm is surrounded by thousands of acres of state forest and they're originally a forest insect so they do very well here. After about 5-10 years of shopvaccing, I tried some consumer sprays and never had much luck. I finally called the local pest control guy and what he sprays around the bottom few feet of the house really works. I haven't had any of those stinky devils in the house since. Slip says 5 gallons of "(B Cyfluthrin) Bayer Tempo SC Ultra".

LOU from WI · Oct 2, 2011

OH the JOYS OF NATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Regards LOU.

LOU from WI · Oct 2, 2011

Maybe he thought of hamburger helper. lol LOU

LOU from WI · Oct 2, 2011

Thanks. Product called SEVEN Works wonders except the solution turns white when dried, but still works even then Thanks LOU,

LOU from WI · Oct 2, 2011

Again guys, THE JOYS OF NATURE lol. LOU

Old Roy · Oct 2, 2011

Kittanning gets those once a year. been awhile back man on motorcycle entering (the bridge that was blown up in the (moth man) movie was killed.

Only happens for one night need to use the street sweeper to make roadway less slippy.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 3, 2011

I bet your margaritas taste like stink bugs!

spacecadet9 · Oct 3, 2011

Either bean harvest has started or the asian beetles are getting cold (no frost here west central IL, yet), because they're beginning to migrate. I work at the University and the south side of the building my office is in is covered with em this afternoon. I know they'll have crawled around my patio door at home. According to Wikipedia the asian beetles were brought in in the '80s to control aphids on pecan trees in the SE.

James Williams · Oct 3, 2011

Stink bugs here in WV is returning,they have destroyed thousand acers of soybeans.A 30 yard radius around the fields are beans that stay green,with no beans

jimmy

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