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Lady Bug Time Again
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Lady Bug Time Again
Here in some areas of the rural Midwest we get attacked by swarms of lady bugs usually on the first warm sunny day after the first frost or freeze.
Lady bugs everywhere, in the barn-millions of em, in the garage-thousands of em and in the house dozens of em.
Apparently they have few to none natural predators. The birds won't eat em!
So i had enough of em and started to spray a few years ago! I sprayed points of entry in the barn and yesterday had to sweep hundreds of orange carcasses out.
My apologies to any ladybug lovers out there!
-Ken
Lady bugs everywhere, in the barn-millions of em, in the garage-thousands of em and in the house dozens of em.
Apparently they have few to none natural predators. The birds won't eat em!
So i had enough of em and started to spray a few years ago! I sprayed points of entry in the barn and yesterday had to sweep hundreds of orange carcasses out.
My apologies to any ladybug lovers out there!
-Ken
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Lighten up while you still can don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand and take it easy - The Eagles
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Ken,
Those are Asian Ladybugs. They are an invasive exotic, so spray away.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef416.asp
Those are Asian Ladybugs. They are an invasive exotic, so spray away.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef416.asp
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Don McCombs wrote:Ken,
Those are Asian Ladybugs. They are an invasive exotic, so spray away.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef416.asp
Don,
You would make a great Extension Agent!
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Re: Lady Bug Time Again
I can understand why, they taste terrible. One crawled into my water jug a couple years ago wen I forgot to close the top.moparado wrote:Apparently they have few to none natural predators. The birds won't eat em!
-Ken
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I'm with John on this one. Last fall I was eating a bowl of corn flakes before bedtime as I often do and one flew into my bowl. Well after about two bites into it I spit the whole mouthful back into the bowl. They are very bitter.
Currently they are everywhere at home inside and out...
Brian
Currently they are everywhere at home inside and out...
Brian
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'48 Cub slowly being stripped of dignity...
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Smell bad when you sweep them up in a vacum cleaner also.Don't have any at my house,but where I used to hunt down in southern Ohio they were real bad.Good luck to you all, I don't miss then "ladybugs"!!!!Kevin
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I was siding my garage a few years ago and they were so bad I was using my bowhunting head net to keep them away. I would push the nail into the foam and go to swing the hammer, the bugs would land on the nail mid swing. I'll save the gorry details, but I had to wash the walls when I was done.
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