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Ladybirds
Hi
I have seen an influx of ladybirds attempting to live in my house coming through my bathroom window. They appear to be the red variety. Never seen so many all in one place. Can anyone give me more information, and how I should treat this invasion. I would not like to kill them
Pamela
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Open the window and shoo them out
In the sticks near Peterborough
...you are not alone....I've had a few lately...red and orangey ones...on my dining table...on the floor...
...ooh...that sounds a bit saucy....
where are mine? I want some ladybirds
In the sticks near Peterborough
Holidaying in the south Nut.....we have plenty
perhaps they'll blow my way in Monday's gales
In the sticks near Peterborough
I tried shooing them out, in fact gently removed about 20 and put outside, and they are gradually come back to see me again
They are looking for a place to hibernate. You could make a bug house and put it against a warm south facing wall.
They will find their way there. If not I have drilled a small hole 1cm under the eve of my garden shed, which allows them access to a sheltered environment to sleep over winter.
Last winter there were 20 or so dotted around the shed.
Was,nt there some kind of verse about ladybirds?
"ladybird,ladybird,fly away home"
Perhaps a bug house would be the answer Pamelala.
Your house is on fire and your children are burned.Cant remember the rest.
All except one and that's little Ann,
For she crept under the fying pan.