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ladybird invasion.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Red maple said:
    Yes, Lyn, I remember when we had swarms of ladybirds, too. It was 1976. There were thousands of them.
    And that summer we had a heatwave. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • carolynslowe252carolynslowe252 Posts: 3
    What's the best way to get rid of them?
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Generally they are not considered a pest, but a good thing.  :)  Have you got them overwintering in your house ?  
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    carolynslowe252 said:
    What's the best way to get rid of them?
     :( 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Leave them alone.  Ladybirds and their larvae feast on aphids so are the gardener's friend.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • MicheleprosserplanthireMicheleprosserplanthire Posts: 1
    We have 100,s of ladybirds nesting in our wooden windows. We are having new windows soon and I don,t want to kill them. I have made a home for some of them with rolled up cardboard and put it in the shed in a corner. Am I doing the right thing! Thanks
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Oh yes Michael,  you’re doing the right thing, how can anyone say how do you get rid of them,  I had hardly any this summer,  would love some more. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    My neighbour runs a B&B. In September two young guests booked in, saw a small cluster of “dirty ladybugs” on the window frame and promptly left. Snowflakes! My neighbour didn’t care - they’d paid in advance.
    Rutland, England
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    We have a heatwave every summer in Dordogne and the spare room, south and west facing, is always full of them in autumn.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Just as well they left @Picidae, they could have taken the room and just squashed the lot.
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