How to control bugs in a farm shop?

[JD3020]

Looking for some ideas to make it a less of a nuisance to be in the shop at night. The shop is roughly 50x70x16, with large doors on the north and east sides, on a working cattle/hay/grain farm. The shop is heated but no A/C so in the warm months the doors are always open. Problem is at night when we turn the lights on they seem to attract every bug for 20 miles, gets to be annoying when we cook and eat dinner in there almost every night. Only plus side is we aren't getting any flies from the cattle lot, just all the bugs coming out of the fields and grass. So aside from cooling the whole shop and keeping doors closed, is there anything fairly cheap/easy we can do to slow them down?

 

[goro]

I have one of those insect killer lights (see below) at my backyard. It does quite a decent job. I can hear sizzling sound like every 30sec. You may need more than one though.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004R9VZ/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[Stuart in MN]

Make or buy screens for the doors?

 

[jkeyser14]

bug zappers in a radius around the barn, 30-50' away from it. It will get all the bugs before they make it to the barn.

 

[Tom White]

Make or buy screens for the doors?

There you go. Sometimes the simplest answer is the best.

 

[theoldwizard1]

The ones that have made a home there can be eliminated by 6-10 bug fogger cans. $10-$20 Late at night, close all the windows and doors and start opening the cans and working your way to the door. Come back in the AM and sweep them up.

This should be good for at least 30 days depending how many new bug find their way in when the doors are open.

 

[cantupshift]

I'd heard if you use certain LED lights they do not emit UV, or very little. You don't have to kill what you don't attract.

Bug bombs? Use good judgement watch the square footage on the fogger boxes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/debugged/

Instead of a bug zapper, get a bat house. No electric bill and you get a free show.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Bug bombs? Use good judgement watch the square footage on the fogger boxes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/debugged/

"Nineteen of these foggers were set off in 470-square-foot home ..."

What could possibly go wrong !

 

[Dberglind]

I'd heard if you use certain LED lights they do not emit UV, or very little. You don't have to kill what you don't attract.

Bug bombs? Use good judgement watch the square footage on the fogger boxes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/debugged/

Instead of a bug zapper, get a bat house. No electric bill and you get a free show.

Bat houses is great idea for this kind of location!

 

[ZipSnafu]

I'd heard if you use certain LED lights they do not emit UV, or very little. You don't have to kill what you don't attract.

I too have had luck with LED's and bugs not getting attracted to them.

 

[Falcon67]

I have one of those insect killer lights (see below) at my backyard. It does quite a decent job. I can hear sizzling sound like every 30sec. You may need more than one though.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00004R9VZ/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Had one, read the reviews - might last a while, might not. The only decent one I ever had burned up about 10 years ago. Bought a couple since - junk, minimal control of bugs or failed. Good luck.

 

[jagwinn]

---Put a pole light 20 feet from the building
---Fly paper strips in the doors
---Home Defense bug spray from Lowes, Home Depot, etc. Keeps walking insects at bay for up to 6 months per application. Spray inside around wall bases and outside overlapping the wall and ground about a foot each way.

 

[Fastfish]

Big Fan blowing at the area where you are working. Flying insects can't stay around with a strong breeze . Been using this method for years before I had a shop also.

 

[bzinsky]

bug lights work well, they won't eliminate them but it'll severely reduce the population.

They work because the bugs can not see the yellow light spectrum as well.

Just buy a few of those and use them as your lighting source while you're hanging out.