Home Invasion Of Ladybugs

Jazzy1

Jazzy1

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Woke up today with what looks like hundreds of ladybugs in the house. Anyone else dealing with the same thing?
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The lady bugs that swarm your house on those sunny days are probably asian lady bugs, they stink if you squish them and they can give a little bite. Yes they are a problem where I live in Ohio but this year wasn't too bad. There has been times where thousands of them were swarming my house and some always find a way in, and I hate bugs in the house.

I spray insecticide several times over the summer to help keep their number down, but haven't been able to totally eliminate them.
 
Jazzy1 said:
Do you get them where you are?
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Not here but I did in Illinois. There were many yards there with hedges for yard trim and they hatch the eggs in those most it seems
No hedges here just tall oak and hickory trees. When I would take the kids out for a walk they used to try and bring them back to school
so I had to learn about them, good thing I did so the students wouldn't get bit and have the school get invaded. I haven't seen any as yet
anyway.
 
We've had those things (Asian Bean Beatles) here for quite a while now. A nuisance. The numbers have declined locally but still an annoying thing do have in the home. My cats do enjoy chasing them... lol.

When I was living in grandma's house she had lamps in the living room with dished out bases under the bulbs, and I kept smelling them, that smell of Black Eyed Peas when they get crushed, is worse when they get in a lamp and get hot/burnt... that lamp literally put off smoke a few times. Eventually the lamp got broken when ex's teen boys had friends over, got wrestling around broke it.

Best thing about them is watching the cats chase them. 😁
 
We get Asian Beetles every year starting about now. As the fields are being harvested they're displaced and start looking for winter homes.

I've seen plans for traps for them, but I never made them because the house I live in has wayyyyy too many access points for a trap to be effective, not to mention I'm surrounded by fields.

We often hear, before we see them bopping, into the lights in the kitchen so the easiest way to dispose of them is with a little masking tape. They stick amazingly well to it.
 
Flarbalard said:
We get Asian Beetles every year starting about now. As the fields are being harvested they're displaced and start looking for winter homes.

I've seen plans for traps for them, but I never made them because the house I live in has wayyyyy too many access points for a trap to be effective, not to mention I'm surrounded by fields.

We often hear, before we see them bopping, into the lights in the kitchen so the easiest way to dispose of them is with a little masking tape. They stick amazingly well to it.
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Oh yeah, our crops just got taken recently too... here come the mice! Arrgh...
 
Jazzy1 said:
Do you get them where you are?
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Lady bugs hatch and swarm about now, I think usually a bit later, but I don't keep track, but when they hatch and swarm in my yard, it's quite an event. Don't leave the door open for any longer that it takes you to get in and out, and expect 30 or 40 to sneak in with you, anyway.

Japanese Beetles hatch from the ground around June. They fly about in great numbers for two weeks and crawl back into the ground and lay eggs that become grubs. All of their lives are spent in the ground as grubs, with only a couple of weeks as bugs in the air when they come out of the
ground to mate.


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JustDave said:
Lady bugs hatch and swarm about now, I think usually a bit later, but I don't keep track, but when they hatch and swarm in my yard, it's quite an event. Don't leave the door open for any longer that it takes you to get in and out, and expect 30 or 40 to sneak in with you, anyway.

Japanese Beetles hatch from the ground around June. They fly about in great numbers for two weeks and crawl back into the ground and lay eggs that become grubs. All of their lives are spent in the ground as grubs, with only a couple of weeks as bugs in the air when they come out of the
ground to mate.


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Thanks for posting this... makes things make sense from when we lived in the place down the road.

Japanese beetles were coated (understatement) on the soybean plants in the field.
And ex always wanted fancy landscaping in front, those grubs were very plentiful there. Did not realize they were of the Japanese beetles. Makes more sense now.
 
IrishEyes said:
Ladybugs or Japanese Beetles? Lady bugs are a bright red, the other have an orangish tone to them and those will bite.
Beetles do migrate this time of year so they may not be there long.
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:oops: Thanks. I did not know the difference until today. I have been picking up the Japanese Beetles for years and putting them outside. Guess none of them cared to bite me. lol
 
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