It was 80 degrees today.
It’s OCTOBER 22.
I can only deduce that this is the reason for our lady bug infestation. It started as finding one here and there - and they are actually the ONLY bug I can tolerate in the house and not hound E. to KILL IT IMMEDIATELY like I do every other insect. Lady bugs are just too cute - and E. also has a thing for them, so I’m able to let them be.
Unless there are about 30 of them swarming around in the kitchen, and another 20 or so in the bedroom. Both locations are windows or doors facing the back of our place, where the sun beats at the end of the day. I’m not sure if this is the reason, or if it has something to do with the apple tree back there. But there must be some hell of a nest or something - because we have a full-on infestation.
I finally couldn’t take just watching them swarm around, and E. got out the vacuum cleaner. The college exterminator is coming on Wednesday. After looking around online, E. found that they are most likely a type of “Asian Beetle,” not lady bugs. I’m hoping this is true - I feel a lot better about killing off the beetles than the ladies.
Um, are there still people out there who think global warming is a hoax?
We are covered in the ladies too!!! They are attracted to buildings with light colored siding and they are really good at getting in through the smallest of cracks. The good thing is they don’t hurt anything and aren’t dangerous. And it provides the cats with hours of entertainment.
Idiots.
we used to get black swarms of them all over the ceilings in our dorms. yuck. must be a western mass college thing, and i’m sure the warm weather isn’t helping, either!