I'll take the asian lady beetles any day of the year to spraying spectricide all over my house. You will find the proliferation of the asian beetles coinciding with soybean aphids. The years you have heavy apid infestation are the years you see the asian lady beetles so thickly. Since large acreages of soybeans are monocultures, when they get hit with aphids it's a big bug problem.........therefore you get a bid predator population. After a couple years running of heavy asian ladybeetle infestations, we found that the county's soybean aphid population dwindled. When they dwindled, so did the lady beetles. It's still a matter of checks and balances. I find a broom and a dustpan, or a couple laps around the house with a vacuum take care of the beetles in the house. That to me is a heck of a lot easier, cheaper and safer than sprays.

I lay in the extra vac bags myself. I also make the trips around the house to sweep any invaders up. However my house is not solidly covered as some I have seen.

Thank you for the word about Spectricide, I will pass it on to some folks with the heavy infestations. We don't have soybeans close by, some down the road a couple miles this year. Will be helpful for the folks in the middle of all the fields.

thanks for the info, Roberta. i dont like to use more sprays than necessary--but neither do i like bugs in my morning coffee!!they even manage to get inside the pot where its set to come on in the morning. we counted 17 crawling on our bedroon ceiling last year-and we thought our house was tight! AND- do you know those little suckers BITE??HARD!!

And bite hard, they do. I used to love autumn, but those beetles have spoiled it. Nothing like enjoying a fall day and suddenly finding yourself covered in a swarm of biting beetles. They will fly right into your eyes and mouth, too! I now regard them as I regard any stinging insect. Beetle: meet spray can.

Bug Stop also takes care of the Boxelder Bugs that tend to show up at about the same time. BTW, I garden organically and never use pesticides for anything, but millions of lady bugs invading my home for several years changed my mind!

Have you tried using boric acid to kill them? It is much safer than spectracide and seems to kill just about every bug it contacts.

Lady bug bites? I don't think so. I think when they lay eggs, they release a chemical that burns the skin.

Unfortunately, Boric Acid was the first thing I tried and it doesn't work. Lady Bug bites? I know so!!!!!

AS do i, I KNOW SO TOO!!(grins)and swats a lady bug. i might add, these arent our regular old lady bugs, i'd save those whereever i can. these lady bugs are a european import, i've read, another experiment gone south.

Yes!!!!!!!!!! They do BITE.

Sorry, actual name for them is the spotted asian beetle.