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Ladybirds

SummergardenSummergarden Posts: 30
in Wildlife gardening
Is anyone else having problems with Ladybirds coming in doors. No sooner have you put them outside they are back in.
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  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    I have not seen many yet. Are they coming in through open doors or windows?
    We get them around window frames in the winter, we leave most of ours cracked open. Dare not close them in case any get squished.

    I think it might be too cold, they want to come in and get warm :D
    Driving along the other day I found one on my arm, a bit distracting, but I have no idea where it came from I had only just left home and got onto the motorway.
    Maybe it wanted to go shopping too.
    Luckily the car park has lots of trees and shrubs so ladybird got a new home.
     
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    We have masses of them opened the window to put them out and there was even more between the frame and the window. Got a dry paint brush and brushed they of, sum flew of others I think were dead sadly. 
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    I have never seen so many ladybirds they are all over the place in my garden, I have a glut!  Hope there is food for them all, don’t want them going hungry.
  • NickG61NickG61 Posts: 21
    Where there are masses of ladybirds, these will probably be Harlequins, an alien species which preys on our native ones. The  problem is so bad that experts say there’s no point in killing them as it wouldn’t make any difference to the millions infesting the uk.
  • Hampshire_HogHampshire_Hog Posts: 1,089
    Ladybirds belong to the scientific family Coccinellidae. In Britain, some 46 species belong to this family, although only 26 of these are recognisable as ladybirds.

    You can find more information here I never knew we had so many native ones in the UK.
    http://www.coleoptera.org.uk/coccinellidae/home

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We’ve got lots of ladybirds 🐞 appearing  in the garden this spring ... and so far they look like native ones. 

    In other years I have noticed that the Harlequins appear a bit later in the year, after the native ones. Anyone else noticed this?

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





  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    We seem to have a ladybird glut as well this year, but so far havent seen one harlequin, so hopefully its been a good year for the natives
  • Mr. Vine EyeMr. Vine Eye Posts: 2,394
    In East Yorkshire - I've also seen huge numbers of ladybirds in our garden and in places we've visited.

    Im glad of them as we also have huge numbers of aphids all over my new roses!

    All native ones that I've seen so far.
    East Yorkshire
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Also a glut here... all over the garden, which pleases me greatly! 😁
  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923
    loads of native 7 spot and 2 spot ladybirds, the odd harlequin, but there was loads knocking about in the autumn?, so i don't know if the warm winter has killed them by them not hibernating properly maybe?
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