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Since we are having 70' weather right now,the lady bugs are HORRIBLE!!
They stink and are flying all over my house inside and out.Tomm. will be a warm day also.
Anyone else having problems with them right now?
 

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Oh yeah!! Can't even open the door without the critters swarming in! They are climbing my window screens and looking for ways to invade. I've sucked dozens off my ceiling with my dirt devil this afternoon. Can't stand those things!!
 
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Neither can I!!! And the kits are going nuts with them flying all over in the house.They are jumping at the lady bugs trying to catch them.All but Sapphire,I keep telling her NO!!
 

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Same here! Boo and Lil Bit chase them,but Anna just wants to stare them down!!
 

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Originally Posted by crittermom

Since we are having 70' weather right now,the lady bugs are HORRIBLE!!
They stink and are flying all over my house inside and out.Tomm. will be a warm day also.
Anyone else having problems with them right now?
Nope It's FREEZING here! It started out 55 this morning and just kept getting colder and colder. I dont know what it is right now but I'm freezing.
 
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It's gonna be 73' tomm too. I wish these darn bugs would go away.And I noticed we have sand hornets around here BAD too!!!
God help me if I get stung by one of those.I'm sooooo allergic to bees/wasps that I have 9 minutes to get to the ER.......and we live 35 minutes away from it.
I think a sand hornet would kill me.
 

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I haven't seen many of them in the house so far, but the office I work at has spawned scads of them on the ceiling overnight. They run around the ceiling fans and bounce off of the fanblades when they try to fly. :p
 

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Man..At my moms house, there's like thousands of them. ALL OVER.
It's like a ladybug storm when you try to open a door.
They're just waiting to get inside and crawl all over you while you sleep.
When I first moved in, I actually had to sweep millions of dead ones off of the stairs. It was disgusting. And I REALLY, and I mean really hate bugs. (One of the reasons I don't want to live there very long)
Ugh..Yes..They are terrible this year. More so than any other year I've seen.
Aren't they the biting ones too?
The Japanese ones that bite?
How can you tell the difference?
Because I'd feel MUCH BETTER if I knew they werent the biting ones.
 
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I don't know about the ones where you are,but these will bite you.And boy do they hurt!!! I can't stand the smell they leave either.YUCK!!
 
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We have ceiling fans in all the rooms, and they are literally flying all over the house from bouncing off of them.
The kids said they are all over and in the schools too.
 
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Originally Posted by furryferals

What is a lady bug ?....We have ladybirds,little red beetle type with black spots.

Are they the same thing?
Yep, same thing!!!
Lady beetles, also known as ladybird beetles or ladybugs, are beneficial insects
which help control many pests.
 
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I don't think they are too benifical right now!!!
 

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Send them to me I use them as pest control and have to fork over aout 8 bucks for 1500 of them ///
 
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Believe me, if I could........I'd send them ALL to you!!!!
 

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Originally Posted by crittermom

Yep, same thing!!!
Aww poor little ladybirds.

We don't have that many of them in the UK,They are Cherished by gardeners and people in general,People even buy little bamboo boxes for them to hibernate in


I would say you were lucky to have so many,but thats only because they are so rare overhere....I can't imagine being swarmed by them
 

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that is the problem here also,
people for years would buy them, but down side is, there is nothing here in ohio that eats them, so now all the window and doors are just black with them
 
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You literally can't walk outside right now without having them ALL over you.My house is sooooooooooo full of them it will take a week to get them all back outside.
 

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The ones here aren't red with black spots...they are orange with black spots!! Some people around here call them "taterbugs"...(hehe)but I think they are some sort of a pine beetle??? Guess it depends on where you are?
 
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