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pest control vacuum

8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago

These box elder bugs are horrendous! Dealing with the masses all over the outside walls and windows is bad enough in the fall, then they decide to come out early and were in the house in the spring, now there are masses - and I mean MASSES as in the thousands - of nymphs outside. $!@*&! Last fall I nuked them with some sort of insecticide, but not the best idea right now with all the pollinators flying about. I did vacuum them up in the house, which worked well, so I"m thinking of investing in an el-cheapo canister vac with a bag so I can just walk around and suck them up to their DEATH. May not be the easiest thing in the beds, but easy enough to get the masses off the concrete of the foundation and off the deck (and the pottery, and the stones, and...), and I think would work well in the fall when they descend upon my house and shed like the proverbial locusts. I do have a shop vac but it doesn't have a bag, and the bag I bought that was supposed to fit didn't - so that's out.

Any recs for a shop vac or canister vac with a bag that I can use for this? I don't want to spend too much money, since it will be the DEATH VACUUM.

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