Every Boxelder bug pest situation is different; we offer residential and commercial applications and can evaluate your needs on-site. We can schedule monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly or even one-time treatments. For your peace of mind, we guarantee positive results.
Box Elder bugs are tricky little pests, and not always easy to get rid of. Bohmz Pest Services offers a control program for getting rid of Box Elder bugs. Box Elder bugs generally revisit the same yards and homes year after year. While you may significantly decrease the population this year, don’t let your guard down. An effective control program involves persistent yearly reapplications. Have a boxelder bug infestation? If you have a Boxelder problem or infestation please call the professionals at Bohmz Pest Services. Call a professional boxelder bug exterminator to rid your yard of the bugs. When you contact the us, indicate whether you want us to prevent the bugs from entering your home or if you want a solution that will remove them from your yard completely. Perimeter treatment is most common.
Our Boxelder Insect & Bug Exterminator Services include, but are not limited to:
- Ants
- Asian Beetles
- Bed bugs
- Bees
- Box elder bugs
- Boxelder Bug Extermination
- Carpenter Ants
- Centipedes
- Cockroaches
- Earwigs
- Fleas
- Flies
- Hornets
- Millipedes
- Silverfish
- Spiders
- Termites (& Preventative Treatments)
- Wasps
- And Many More!
Services include interior and exterior applications that will meet and exceed your expectations. For spring and fall treatments, we offer exterior power sprays for effective extermination. Getting rid of boxelder bugs is not a problem! We are a boxelder bug killer pest control company in Janesville & Madison areas.
Eco-friendly solutions
Eco-friendly solutions and pest management treatments are available to ensure safety at your residence or business, using the best technologies and practices available. Our services are not only highly effective but they help keep children, pets, and employees safe by minimizing the use of pesticides. Our practices can be safely used in even sensitive areas. Remember, pests are not only a nuisance, but they can carry diseases that may cause serious illness or injury. Contact us to help prevent boxelder bugs, cluster flies, lady bugs and similar pests from entering your home!
Our comprehensive treatments and techniques will keep your property free of infestations.
Immediate assistance is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Contact our certified pest control technicians in Janesville & Madison about your boxelder bug pest control needs at 608-201-0807 today.
No time to meet? No problem! If you are unable to meet with our technician at the time of service, we can still assist you. Your keys and codes will be completely safe with our licensed and certified technicians. To schedule an appointment for residential or business service, contact Bohmz Pest Services by calling 608.201.0807 today or by visiting our contact page.
Learn More About Boxelder Bugs
The boxelder bug (Boisea trivittata) is a North American species of true bug. It is found primarily on boxelder trees, as well as maple and ash trees. The adults are about 12.5 millimetres (0.49 in) long with a dark brown or black coloration, relieved by red wing veins and markings on the abdomen; nymphs are bright red.
Although they specialize on Acer seeds, they may pierce plant tissues while feeding. They can cause significant damage to your home and are considered to be pests. Removal of boxelder and other Acer species can help in control of bug populations.
They may form large aggregations while sunning themselves in areas near their host plant (e.g. on rocks, shrubs, trees, and man-made structures). However, their congregation habits and excreta can annoy people; thus, they are considered nuisance pests. This is especially a problem during the cooler months, when they sometimes invade houses and other man-made structures seeking warmth or a place to overwinter. They remain inactive inside the walls (and behind siding) while the weather is cool. When the heating systems revive them, some may falsely perceive it to be springtime and enter inhabited parts of the building in search of food, water, and conspecifics. In the spring, the bugs leave their winter hibernation locations to feed and lay eggs on maple or ash trees; aggregations may be seen during this time and well into summer and early fall, depending on the temperature.
Rhopalidae (scentless plant bugs) in the order Hemiptera (true bugs)
A blackish bug with a flattened back with red markings, sometimes in the form of an X on the back, plus a red line along the outer edge of the closed wings. There are noticeable veins on the membranous portion of the forewings. The immature stages are bright red with black legs and slate-gray or blackish wing buds (the tiny, immature wings).
Length: to ½ inch.
Boxelder bugs are found in proximity to their food plant, the box elder tree, and occur wherever those trees are found—forests, bottomlands, yards, parks and more. In autumn you may see hundreds of these bugs crawling on the outside (usually the south-facing side) of your house, seeking winter shelter. They go dormant as the weather gets colder, but if they are warmed by your home’s heating, they may revive and enter your house, mistaking its warmth for springtime.
Like many other true bugs (such as cicadas, aphids, stinkbugs and leafhoppers), boxelder bugs have strawlike mouthparts adapted for sucking plant juices. The preferred food plant is box elder (Acer negundo), though they are sometimes also found on other maples, especially silver maples, and ash trees. Generally, they feed on the soft, leafy parts of the trees. Oddly enough, boxelder bugs rarely hurt their host trees.
Boxelder tips
Encourage birds into your garden. For example, robins love to feast on these bugs. Place bird-feeders near where the bugs are, and you might just encourage the birds to feast on bugs too.
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