Envirosafe Termite and Pest Control finds Boxelder bugs all over a Rock Hill SC Home

 This being the third weekend of February, we finally get a couple very nice sunny days in the Carolinas with temperatures nearing 60 degrees. With the warm weather, the harmless Box Elder bug comes out from the siding on the south side of homes in mass exodus. We received calls over the weekend with customers mistakenly calling these pesky little reddish orange and black insects everything from swarming termites to bedbugs.

 

Jude and Michael were amazed at the numbers of box elder bugs 

clustered against the outside of a Rock Hill, SC Home.

The boxelder bug is a good example of a harmless nuisance insect.
There are many kinds of damage that box elder bugs do not cause.

 

  

• They do not cause much damage to ornamental landscape plants, and rarely cause significant damage to fruit trees.

• They do not injure people or pets

• They will not feed on house plants or on your furniture.

• They don't cause structural damage to your home.

•  However, boxelder bug excrement can stain curtains, furniture, or clothing, and they give off an offensive odor when they're crushed.

If you find boxelder bugs on walls or tree trunks and want to get rid of them, boiling water is a great green approach to ridding them from your home. However, you don't want to being trying to douse the side of your house with boiling water because more often than not, the infestation will be over your head.  Additionally, boiling water will kill your grass. Call Envirosafe Termite and Pest Control in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and we will handle this for you in an environmentally safe manner. 

Update: Boxelder bugs have been swarming all this week (September 21, 2017) in Orlando Florida. 

Call Envirosafe Pest Control Orlando 6519 Haughton Lane Orlando, FL 32835 407-580-7124

                                              




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