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Ladybirds
Firecracker
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We have 20 ladybirds in the corner of half a dozen (pvc) opening windows, about 10 in a glass lampshade, and loads more clambering to get in round the conservatory windows.
SWMBO has to have the windows open a bit all the time so the little darlings just invite themselves in.
I do put bug houses round the garden,
Just wondering what others do.?
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I don't do anything except not open the French doors. They're all packed in round them and just fall on the floor, inside and out if disturbed. Otherwise they sort themselves out
In the sticks near Peterborough
If you need to move them I'd sweep 'em up with a brush and dustpan and deposit them in the greenhouse/garden shed/cold frame or under a hedgerow.
I remember when we had a ladybird invasion on the East Coast in 2009 - in Cromer you couldn't walk along the clifftop without squashing hundreds of them.
Apparently the collective noun for ladybirds is 'a loveliness of ladybirds'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have bug houses that they live in but they also nestle in the spaces between leaf stalks and twigs/stems.
New Year's Day 2016
is that you top left Ladybird?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've been knocking them off with a brush into a pot, and relocating them to the bug house.
You 'spotted' me nutcutlet
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've seen three this year and two of them bit me
B3 you are obviously delicious!
Not really Tetley, I was wondering how others help them overwinter. What kind of house do they favour.?I've put out rolled corrugated cardboard in pvc tubing, and the usual bug houses.