hey guys my name is column and on
today's video I'm gonna show you guys
how to at least control what is known as
the box elder bug now previously I
thought they were love bugs they look
similar but they're two distinctly
different things I've been fighting
these guys for three years they used to
be on my house in and they were at such
a high concentration where the wall
would just look like a black red
wallpaper I've been fighting them for
three years now and the only way or the
best way I've found to do it is to use
citrus Ajax mixed out of high
concentration with water into your
sprayer I'll show you guys what I do and
this is what I have now so at this point
in their lifecycle you can see the
adults I don't know if you can see those
that's typically what they look like and
then you can see the babies that are
just hatching all over the place all
over they love to live in these maple
trees or Bucks
elder trees I believe is what they call
them why they get their name they're all
around my house and apparently they lay
their eggs on the leaves or on the
helicopters and they can end up at up to
two miles away so again I'm just going
to show you quick video as to what I do
to try control them that has helped out
drastically but it is a constant ongoing
battle okay so step one
and I'm actually out of Ajax buy a big
bottle of Ajax I think this was like
five bucks from from Sam's now I have a
typical Home Depot sprayer it's just one
gallon in size I'll put a link in the
description this is a 90 fluid ounce
bottle I put in roughly 1/8 of the
bottle so I was there i mix roughly 10
fluid ounces to one gallon now I would
go if you if you want go a higher
concentration to where it's nice and
bubbly and thick I think it suffocates
them but the citrus smell
apparently also helps to deter them now
of course every time it rains that
centrist bone smell gets washed away but
yeah okay let's show you how I do it
okay I filled my bottle you can see it
gets nice and soapy I'll put that in
twist it tighten it and pressurize it
okay here we go
you see how they all scatter just
thousand now I spray the Ajax on my
plants none of them seem to be affected
so far so I'm gonna keep doing it
because that's where a lot of these guys
live again they like the rocks bricks
crevices anything anything sort of stony
or brick like it's where they love to go
hide out and you'll watch it's a lot of
them for all the babies they're sort of
just dying already if I see it moving
again and you'll just see I'll spray the
ground with the rocks and they just come
out of everywhere so I don't know if you
guys can see them but they literally may
be too small for the camera but and so
yeah I'll go through and I'll douse this
entire section as you guys will see so I
tend to spray all the dolts all the
babies all the eggs I don't really know
if it's effective on the eggs since I
think the Ajax more so suffocates them
than anything and if you're searching
for this video or how to control these
beetles at this point I think you're not
going to feel sorry for me
I am NOT a I'm someone that loves nature
I try to take care of it I think it's an
extremely important but when it comes to
these things
they are extremely frustrating
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okay so I've sprayed pretty much this
whole area now let's go check out the
damage okay so as you can see pretty
much all these babies there's one alive
pretty much all of these guys one more
alive it's in the most part okay and now
this is where I'm saying you'll spray
this stuff keep stabbing them till they
usually take five ten seconds to die or
drown whatever they do but they will
keep coming out of the nooks and
crannies it is amazing I mean I could
spend thirty minutes doing this when you
have a extreme infestation but again so
I'll go around I'll spray all the adults
that I can find you see the ball did
that guys parks me alive still but I
have knocked out a lot and half of them
you can't see but you can see how many
are still crawling around and in the
rocks that have come out of the crannies
as I've sprayed the citrus but how many
I've also killed again dead dead dead
did
so yeah that's the basics get some Ajax
is cheap for five bucks for that bought
92 ounce bottle mix it in a sprayer
bottle if you don't have one Bibles from
Home Depot it's also cheap and you will
have to do this on a consistent basis
until you knock that population down and
again if you got that's the best I've
found as population control you guys
have a better solution or found a better
solution please comment down below I
would love to hear it I am so sick and
tired of fighting these guys but if
that's what you got to do that's what
that's what I have to do that's what I
have to do but yeah I hope you guys
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