Wildwood Farms 02615 Lady Bug Habitation Box

did not do the trick

Great ladybug house, and easy to use and maintain but unlike the detail says, it did not come with a pre-drilled hole for mounting. Not a big deal but not as specified. best used with ladybug lure. Other one on AMAZON says for about 15 bucks cheaper and same product.

Combined with a "Ladybug Lure," I successfully keep 99% of the ladybugs outside my house each fall. I used to have to vacuum up hundreds of these "misunderstood" creatures each fall/spring, and as an avid gardener, I hate killing them. They are voracious aphid and pest eaters, and I want them in my garden each summer. But in the fall they enter the house to hibernate. Put a little mulch inside this house, tack a ladybug lure to it (I use the brand Safer Ladybug lures) and you will have only a handful that still "sneak in." The lure has a pheronome in it that attracts the ladybugs to the house. I have one attached to the 4x4 under my deck - and they still don't come in the house. You can put one in your garden to lure them to your aphid prone plants in the summer. The lures are harder and harder to find so I buy them online; retailers have told me it is because people don't want to attract them - heck, you just need to understand this beneficial insect.