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- Stopping bugs from even entering your home is the most efficient control technique. Seal around window and door frames, where pipes and wires enter homes and put screens over vents.
- Repair siding that’s falling off. It resembles bark of trees.
- Clean up woodpiles, landscape debris and other places in your yard they may look to survive.
- Try spraying large collections of boxelders away with the garden hose. Sometimes a strong spray will be enough to deter them from coming back.
- Pour boiling water over bugs.
- Spray trees with horticultural oil early in the season right when the bugs begin to emerge.
- Kill box elders at any point in their lifecycle with pyrethrin sprays.
- Vacuums are always a valuable tool in pest prevention. The shop-vac makes quick work of removing the bugs.
- Sprinkle borax, diatomaceous earth under window sills and door jams.
- Sometimes you can remove female boxelder trees to reduce numbers of the bug.
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