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I lived in WV and the DNR (I think) released tons of them to kill the Gypsy Moths. They would come in the house in droves, making it look like an Alfred Hitchcock movie. They would be so thick they'd block the sun through the windows. They sting and stink and the walls would be moving with thousands of them. We'd fill our vacuume cleaner every day with dead ones. My neighbor's wife moved because of them. I used to like them but now, they're on the same list as cockroaches. Ugh!
I use a electric leaf blower to give them the boot in the right direction. You could use a gas powered one – but the fumes would stink up your house (if not give you carbon monoxide poisoning).
The lady bugs or or their Asian look alike would infest our garage in late fall (when the temperatures started to drop). Most of the time they swarmed inside - near the garage doors. The leaf blower was perfect to shoo them out of our house. Of course I don't think our neighbors appreciated this maneuver.
1x/year, on an especially warm October day, poof ! Ladybugs everywhere, swarms appear overnight.
Since it's brief and rare, it doesn't really interfere with my life-it's not so severe and intense as to cause me major problems.
Fortunately, they disappear within short order, so I don't really mind the temporary weirdness of their ubiquity-being colonized by invaders
Ladybugs don't frighten me the way other bugs do. They're easier to catch & release: just grab a receipt paper, scoop up a few, open the window screen, & they fly out.
These photos were taken today, outside my door/porch & window:
Found my post on this phenomenon from 2 years ago (back when I had no pictures to document it)-
Oct. 15 that year (8 days before Oct. 23, when I made the post), compared with Oct. 14 this year. //www.city-data.com/forum/26639028-post3139.html
As usual, within a day the mass of ladybugs had dissipated, almost as if it had never happened-but I have the photos this time around.
Have only seen a few since then, the "annual ladybug migration/explosion/proliferation event".
I did help them out a bit with finding their way back outside when they accidentally ended up indoors.
Y'all are nicer than I am. I don't release them - they'd just find their way back inside anyway. I kill them. I'm at over 100 kills so far this week. If they invade my home, the penalty is death. I know it won't teach the rest of 'em a lesson, but it will at least keep my home bug-free. I feel dirty when there are bugs in my house.
Ladybugs are relatively rare where I live (Long Island, NY). Having said that, 2 days ago, I noticed a ladybug on my right shoulder as I was walking into work. She stayed there until I got to my desk & then flew up to the ceiling where she stayed for the rest of the day. The following morning she was gone!
They are just looking or a place to spend the winter and by the sounds of it they like sleeping in your house. I had them at my old house too. Loads of entertainment for the cat. Since they don't cause any dammage or trouble I never really minded them.
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