I would def NOT recommend the ultrasonic - it is harmful to all pests and people - dogs in particular find it painful. We have no idea yet what it does to YOUR brain function.
All bugs have their place. Go with more-different fragrant plants and some fans - many bugs don't like the moving air. Make a water feature which attracts dragonflies and stock it with larvae-eating little fish. Dragonflies are voracious bug eaters.
And plant fruit trees, which attract fruit bats - the little fruit bats are stunning pollinators and also eat huge amounts of insects. More BIRDS in general will help. So build a bird feature and make sure you have food for them.
If your wife screams at the thought of bats, get a new one. LOL. 😆
Thanks for the feedback! Thankfully we’ve never had a bat in our house so I think we can assume neither of us would be thrilled to have one, but it’s too rare that it wouldn’t matter we would get it out lol
So living in a condo, we don’t have the ability to plant fruit trees. I mean I could I think, but I don’t plan on living here long enough to enjoy the trees anyways (<1 year hopefully, maybe 2). We do have lots of bats around, I hear them using echo location in the early mornings and in the evenings but these bugs love the sunlight. I will take a picture of the little buggers today.
I looked at the product and it’s rated for 20-40 hertz which is weird because some say megahertz which is high beyond that. I wouldn’t mind 20-40 hertz but megahertz is wildly above the range for WiFi, so I can’t imagine how bad that is.
So we took some pictures of the little buggers and the slaughter that ensued.
Got a closeup of one of them, I can’t tell what it is; is it a fly? Is it a beetle? Oi!
They are swarming on our side of the place. That’s our other bedroom window and there’s dozens of them on there!
I think we killed probably 50 of them and they still kept coming and swarming. It was driving me nuts!
I think I may have figured out the problem though. They love the gutter and I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that the condo association we live in doesn’t clean them every year so I’m going to get up on a ladder (gracefully and safely as possible lol) to give it a look. I bet I’ll find all kinds of shit up there and hopefully can clean some of it out maybe.
