Several lady bugs getting ready to "drink the kool aid".
Up close and personal.
Our house has a lady bug infestation. That's not necessarily a bad thing; I mean, lady bugs are beneficial predators of destructive aphids and they're pretty cute. They don't eat wood like termites either. So all in all we are very accepting of lady bugs except....except when they go through mass die-offs in the house. Apparently lady bugs can over winter in the walls of a house and we are beginning to think that we have the equivalent of a massive lady bug city in the walls of our house. That would be O.K. if these over-wintering lady bugs woke up in late March and headed to the garden. Unfortunately, many of them seem to have seasonal clocks that are out of adjustment and so dozens of them show up in the living room everyday wondering if Winter is over. Unfortunately Winter is not over, and so after hanging around on the windows, the table, the floor, my computer and who knows what else, these unfortunate early adventurers die, littering the living room floor. We hold a brief memorial service and then vacuum them up. Zazou our Golden Retriever likes to eat a few every now and then as well. So there you have it, another reason to hope for an early return to Spring up here in the North Country. To stop the lady bugs from taking over the house!
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I've had quite a few ladybugs in our place too. We've just been letting them be; not sure what else do to with them.
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