Does anyone ease have the lady bugs like I do? They are here by the millions. 3 years ago they were like this when we were building our garage. To bad they are not like this in the summer when our gardens could use them. They come in somewhere and today I must have cought several hundred to but outside and hope they don't find there way in again.
Yes, they are here in droves. They are not the true lady bug, but the "nine-spotted" version accidentally imported from Europe in 1988. Much hardier than our native lady bug. They pinch like the dickens. But we also have the "no see ums" that do bite like crazy, so given a choice, I'll take the ladybugs.
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Posts: 2942 | Location: Zone 4-5, North Central Iowa | Registered: April 12, 2002
Ours never went away. They've been 'overwintering' here. When there seem to be more of them than us, I get out the vaccuum sweeper and tell the kids to vacuum them up. Must be April Showers isn't within vaccuuming distance for you? (ha ha!!)
Evenin' Moved to NC. from PA four years ago.They are not a problem up there.HERE is another story....we were ladie bug friendly at first.....scooping them up in a little piece of paper ,then releasing them back to nature.Now....we use our 8lb orick vacumm cleaner and suck them buggers up by the hundreds.Our cabin has a southern exposure and they prefer to congregate on the wall facing the sun.
No see-ums are those minute little bugs that you can hardly see and you don't know they are there until they bite. And man do they bite. Worse than a mosquito, and it swells up and itches. They abound in early spring and then again in fall during "Indian Summer". I don't hang clothes out in the spring because of them.
They probably have a biological or scientific name, but "no see-ums" fits, cause you don't see them!
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Posts: 2942 | Location: Zone 4-5, North Central Iowa | Registered: April 12, 2002
Interestingly, this year we did not get our usual ladybug infestation in the early spring. But we did get Boxelder bugs...big time. Usually we'd get the ladybug and boxelder infestations at the same time, but not this year. It makes me wonder what happened to the ladybugs. (Portland, OR)
