This might be a Northern thing, I don't know for sure but is anyone else experiencing the spring invasion of lady bugs?

I can't walk through the foyer without lady bugs falling on my head. They are landing on my nose when I am sleeping. One walked across my cutting board when I was dicing celery.

I have dust busted a million of them off the floor and walls and they stink when you suck them up!

They are swarming on the inside of the window up in the top of the foyer and since it is two stories high, I can't get to it to suck them up.

Is there such thing as lady bug traps? Kinda like those June bug traps?

For sure, have Mark rake them up and then take a picture of you up to your eyebrows in ladybugs.

I'm sorry, couldn't resist. But we don't get all that many here.

HAHAHAHA You gave me the best laugh of the day, Pam!

Karen,
try to catch as many as you can alive. People pay good money for lady bugs. order lady bugs
or here

They control the aphids and other bugs in the garden.
Geez, if you have enough, you could sell them on e-bay & maybe pay for a cruise (or an excursion on MUSH) :app:

Vicki, I can probably gather up 80,000 for the 5-10 acre size pack! That will net me almost $80.00 :)

Yes, Karen,
We rose gardeners BUY ladybugs for our Roses. They do eat the aphids so our roses look pretty. We hardly see them here.

It's good luck when they land on you! Make wishes!

Karen,

Maybe you attract them because you look and smell like a rose to them!! How is that for a compliment?

I never heard of a lady bug invasion! Just that darn June bug invasion. Down here, it is really the "April" bug invasion of the June bugs. The pool is covered with the buggers each morning. I would prefer lady bugs!

Doesn't sound too promising, Karen.
from www.doyourownpestcontrol.com

..."After spending the winter months tucked away in a wall void or other secluded place, they have simply forgotten how they got in. When they become active in the late winter, lady bugs often find themselves inside the home rather than outside. At this time ladybugs are merely looking for a way to escape to the out-of-doors.
This reawakening may take place over several weeks, depending on temperatures and the size of the population.

Once ladybugs have become established in the home, there aren't a lot of treatment options.
There are not a lot of recommended chemical measures at this point. The easiest way to remove ladybugs, once they are indoors, is with a vacuum cleaner."

This site lists some chemical treatments:
ladybugs

And here's one that claims to have the secrets the experts don't want you to know!
stop lady bugs

We haven't had an influx of ladybugs. But, what I have noticed are zillions of butterflies. I think our heavy rains may have had something to do with this, as I've never seen so many before.

Karen, we have the same problem. About 5 years ago, my cousin's daughter caught ladybugs and released them in our house and we can't get rid of them either.

I suggest you and I start an ebay company immediately. We could pool our resources. However, we will now be taxed on our vast earnings on ebay!!

Karen, we have the same problem. About 5 years ago, my cousin's daughter caught ladybugs and released them in our house and we can't get rid of them either.

I suggest you and I start an ebay company immediately. We could pool our resources. However, we will now be taxed on our vast earnings on ebay!! The bad thing is if you squish them by mistake, they leave a red mark on the walls. We sometimes make ladybug soup out of them. <img border="0" alt="[beer]" title="" src="graemlins/beer.gif" /> Doug just gobbles it up.

Andi,

I will send Daisy, my cairn terrier to you. She can teach Maggie all about how to catch bugs. We know about every uninvited critter in our house.

When she is done, send her on to Karen. She will bark at them and hold them at bay so you can vaccuum them up. Her AKC Name is Mavrik's Daisy Red Ryder. If you look up Red Ryder it refers to the Daisy Air Rifle featured on the movie the Christmas Story and the advertising by line is "Made to git them varmits"

Editing to add, Fred and Pat have her cousin. Maybe you can borrow her too. Double Bug Catching and barking at them!

We are also being swarmed with ladybugs here in Alabama. We keep vacuuming them up, we have also put masking tape around all of our doors as the come through unsealed doors and windows. I'm beginning to wonder if they will ever go away! We have been fighting this for 3 months now. We are hoping our neighbor's rose bushes will keep them away.

About three years ago we were first invaded with a new kind of ladybug. These are not the nice ones that I used to be happy to encounter outdoors in our garden (knowing that they are good for eating harmful bugs such as aphids). The new arrivals have been referred to as Asian lady beetles and they have a nasty bite. At our son's house they have gotten into the walls as mentioned in posts above. The bugs are a real nuisance. And, yes, they do stink when you crush them.

Kathy Z---eeeeeewwwww, those bugs sound awful.

Karen--I don't mind lady bugs, but I WOULD NOT like so many as you are dealing with. I hate bugs, anyway--terrified of spiders, ugh!!! One or two ladybugs could be cute, but a swarm??? NOT!!!

Back in Maryland, where I grew up, we had this 17 year locust. They came out in, I think it was 1969 (the summer I graduated from high school) and it was like something out of a horror movie---especially for someone like me who is squeamish about bugs. It was horrid,horrid, horrid. One woman crashed her car into someone's dining room b/c they got into her car while she was driving. Ugh!!! Olivia, if you're on this tread, do you get them where you are? I think they just had a recent episode this past year or so.

I'm with you, Liz...ick,ick,ick...I do have a lot of funny Robert bug stories, though.

Edit to add I googled Ladybug Traps and got hundreds of links. Give it a whirl.

Kathy, Maggie is eagerly awaiting Daisy's arrival!!

Robert, if Daisy fails, I will begin to look up ladybug traps. It's the darn squirrels we can't get rid of that are giving us grief. They are avoiding our traps, so we have been unable to relocate. I'm just going to thow bags and bags of mothballs in the attic and hope that does it.

Gizmo (The blonde)is the squirrel guy at our house with Daisy (The Brindle aka Toto) as backup. Also does birds. This is our perch from which we watch out for Birds, Bugs, Squirrels, Rabbits and other creatures including human intruders.
We're ready to do our assigned jobs
Here we are awaiting our assignment

Kathy - cute picture!

Masaki

Adorable dogs! They look full of mischief :D

Cute doggies, Kathy!

Betty,

Kathy, the blonde has a lhapso face. Or is it the haircut? Cuties.

Andi, the Blonde, has a Lhasa face and body and the sweetest temperament. Frank says he's dog of the week - every week. He's our best dog ever and he's a rescue from the streets with two weeks in the pound trying to find his owner. He was 2 when we got him from the shelter. He was so sick when we got him with Kennel Cough, Worms, Staph, Mange, Ear infections and more. He's 8 now but plays with Daisy as if he was a puppy. She's our entertainer and clown and he is the love of our life. Daisy was a purchase and I adore her too.

Robert, LOL, LOL, do I want to HEAR your bug stories....eeeeeewwwwww bugs are so icky. :ohmy:


Oh, Kathy, how adorable and special are your two little babies!!! How well do i know having a special dog be the love of your life (my Abigail, half-lab, half boxer is the love of mine!!) They look so full of fun....I bet they keep you laughing. I have a special place in my heart for rescue or pound dogs.....

Hey, Karen, can we get a little doggie instant gremlin????????????? There's a really really cute little doggie type thing on AOL, but I don't know how to get him onto here. Maybe I'll send him to you in an e-mail. He is too cute, sitting, cocking his head and wagging his tail...

Send him to me Liz, and I will put him in your signiture area at the bottom of your posts :)

Right click on him and choose "email" and then you can send him.

I hope some people on this board like CATS...I will admit, as a non dog lover,that you all have adorable dogs....MEOW..."baby" is calling - Joanna

Never fear, Joanna - ALL animal lover here but am partial to cats - have 2 now and have had cats all my life. The first picture my Mom took of me in my crib when I got home from the hospital was of Scampi and I in the crib. At first my mom was a little scared having the cat in there but my Dad said to chill (whatever) but after a few days it became apparent that Scampi was doing no harm. She would actually hiss and growl at strangers who approached. Or so the story goes.

Some of us adore cats. We just don't want to be owned by them. We just have dogs because Cats don't and won't worship us. I think it has to do with the crib. We had a terrier who would jump into my crib and no one could go in my room except my mother when DoDo was in there.