Comments on: How to Get Rid of Click Beetles Naturally (DIY Remedies)

By: Kayla C

Kayla C — Sun, 07 May 2023 20:35:37 +0000

Thank you Anthony!
I like the way you end your message for the readers: “and possibly save them from a mental breakdown”.
That understanding describes me, entirely!
I live in an apartment with my family and we have 6 little ones, so I see a lot of distasteful thing very often 😋.
But 2 days in a row now I have come across, what I now know to be called click beetles.
I am a bigger baby then my own 7 month old when it comes to bugs, most bugs anyway.
When I saw this click beetle moving across my bathroom floor, it truly made me want to cry, especially when I went to just snatch it up quickly with paper towel and I didn’t get it and it started to make that sound and jump into the air 3 times in a row. I started getting chills and teary eyed. Because I knew I had to go and try to grab it again. I didn’t know what it was so I thought I just needed to kill it so I wouldn’t have to see it again. I was jumpy after the fact, thinking every little feeling I had was a beetle crawling on me. Yuck. But reading your article and learning about it made me very calm. Yours wasn’t the first page I came across about these things and I am very glad I stop to read yours. You were very informative. I have a my garden set up on our back porch. A lot of veggies and herbs. And for the the first time ever, I planted a pot for lavender. And this was just yesterday, in fact, which amazes me because I have had my garden set up for a month now and I was looking through seeds I had and just decided I would like to see lavender grow. It’s the only flower I planted. I’m excited I had the seeds and that it is growing along side of the rest of my garden. This was the second day in a row of finding a beetle. So I will be following your tips and I just really wanted to say I appreciated your article!!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 23:33:26 +0000

Hi
very informative article. i read 3 times because i have heavy infestation of click beetles in my yard,5 years old new property. 20 to 30 beetles and worms per 1 sqft. area up to 4 inches depth in the lawn.
Eaten my vegi plants and Kentacky Blue grass lawn roots. well drained yard. lawn maintenance company sprayed 2 times this summer did not work.(now its end of Summer- August 2022)

I want save my lawn. can you advice me to get rid of these click (monster) beetles and larvea.
I am in SW Ontario, Canada

Thank you for your help.

By: Dana

Dana — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 19:23:31 +0000

I had the horrifying experience of eastern click beetles over two inches long (I kid you not) flying into me this summer while doing roof repairs. This was on a flat roof (thank goodness) about 40′ high near a deeply wooded area in Georgia. I didn’t know what they were at the time because I’d never seen anything like them before; they resembled large flying roaches but were grey with black circles on their backs like eyes on the back of a cobra snake. I was using Henry Rubberized Wet Patch and Extreme Rubberized Wet Patch. It only happened when I was using either of those two Henry materials that have a pungent tar smell to them and it happened every time I used those materials on that roof. After screaming, flailing my arms and knocking them down off of me, they walked into the areas I had just spread the wet patch. One couldn’t make it out after that and is now cemented onto the roof. Another one made it out but kept trying to get the goop off its legs and eventually flipped onto its back and died. This happened on multiple occasions though it was always just one flying at me at a time. Perhaps Henry could be the new pest control for them. Just get some slightly damp or recently dried cardboard, spread a thick layer of the Henry wet patch all over it on a hot sunny day and throw out the next day after you have fossilized eastern click beetles. I haven’t tried it on cardboard, but I would imagine that it would work the same.