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"Kim E." wrote
I hope there are no more ladybug infestations like
last year!!



Last year what was UP with that?? We had a ton of ladybugs in our house
all
of a sudden! I hate to kill ladybugs but we just couldn't let them
infest-
there were literally packs of them.

We had those too, but I read somewhere that they weren't really ladybugs.
They were something from Japan, but I don't remember the details.

They were not as bright red as most ladybugs are (yes, I know ladybugs can
be orange or yellow too, but these were somehow different...) and the
worst
thing was that they BITE!

I hate to kill anything, but those beasties had to go.

We've been infested with the asian beetles as they are called around here
for the last 6 years! They are horrible, smelly, nasty biting things. This
year was the worst next to the very first year we had them. They were here
in the SPRING this year whereas usually they show up moreso in the fall.
They were in our bedroom this year, and they do pinch.

We live in an old farmhouse, and I believe they find us very desirable.
I've heard tales of people re-doing their siding and when they pulled of the
old stuff the wall is literally covered with the beetles.
--
Joy

Rose 1-30-99
Iris 2-28-01
Spencer 3-12-03

One thing that may couse you some distress with that is if it is a store
bought bomb, they don't usually get underneath surfaces, just settle on the
surface, then, all the eggs and fleas that are under your couch, chairs etc.
are not eradicated and the problem continues. I know this would p*** me off
if I bombed to get rid of them and they were still there.

"Carol Ann" wrote in message
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I've decided to go ahead and bomb the house because of the number of fleas
and moths that have suddenly popped up.

I can't take it any more.

I'm shutting off the baby's room. I will leave the house for a good 8
hours.

This just HAS to work!!!

Any thoughts?

--
~Carol Ann
Mom to Morgan born 3.24.04
http://tinyurl.com/28zno ---Pictures!

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"Kim E." wrote
I hope there are no more ladybug infestations like
last year!!



Last year what was UP with that?? We had a ton of ladybugs in our house
all
of a sudden! I hate to kill ladybugs but we just couldn't let them infest-
there were literally packs of them.

We had those too, but I read somewhere that they weren't really ladybugs.
They were something from Japan, but I don't remember the details.

They were not as bright red as most ladybugs are (yes, I know ladybugs can
be orange or yellow too, but these were somehow different...) and the worst
thing was that they BITE!

THANK YOU!! I am showing this to my dh as he did not believe me that
these things were biting me.

I hate to kill anything, but those beasties had to go.

They creeped me out as they were still invading our house in the dead of
winter, and they seemed to always find themselves on the floor on my
side of the bed, or somehow only in my way. I think they were stalking
me!

-kim

Jill wrote:

"Kim E." wrote
I hope there are no more ladybug infestations like

last year!!




Last year what was UP with that?? We had a ton of ladybugs in our house all
of a sudden! I hate to kill ladybugs but we just couldn't let them infest-
there were literally packs of them.

We had the lady bugs here, too! Even in the winter! Millions of them.
They kept swarming all over the windows. Definitely not the natural
kind but the imported asian kind.


Now, wasps.....I hate to kill any living thing but don't feel as guilty
about exterminating them!

So far the wasps and bees in general have been more rare this season,
here.

lissi wrote:

On 6/10/04 10:15 AM, "Lucy" wrote:


"Jill" wrote in message
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"Kim E." wrote
I hope there are no more ladybug infestations like

last year!!



Last year what was UP with that?? We had a ton of ladybugs in our house

all

of a sudden! I hate to kill ladybugs but we just couldn't let them infest-
there were literally packs of them.

We had those too, but I read somewhere that they weren't really ladybugs.
They were something from Japan, but I don't remember the details.


I think they're called Pumpkin Bugs and they brought them over from Asia as
a predator for some other pest here in the States. Unfortunately there is no

I'm pretty sure it was to deal with aphids. Not sure which country got
them first, but they *definitely* have infested us here in Canada, too.

I didn't realize they bite! In our house they usually just gathered in the
corners by the ceiling and I would vacuum them out once in a while.

They will bite when their other food source is depleted. The native
species will do that too, IIRC.

"Kim E." wrote
They creeped me out as they were still invading our house in the dead of
winter, and they seemed to always find themselves on the floor on my
side of the bed, or somehow only in my way. I think they were stalking
me!


Good grief, yuck! We just had plain old ladybugs, and they didn't bite or
anything but there were just so many of them, in clusters in corners and on
our ceiling etc and around windows. They would startle you by flying around
and suddenly you'd feel something crawling on you.

I felt like I spent months picking them out of my hair etc, and taking them
to the door and shooing them outside- I didn't have the heart to smush them,
so I was taking them out whenever I happened upon one! We managed to get rid
of them mostly by scooping the clusters up in a dustpan and tossing them
outside, amazingly.....then they just sort of died out, the population that
was still here....if those suckers bit, I'd have sprayed!

The pest control man said he doesn't see termites in our house, and the ants
with wings, he thinks, aren't bad enough to spray for because he can't tell
where they are coming in from (neither can we....a crack? a drain? a
hole?)...they are only in the master bathroom. They're enough to be
annoying, you'll see like 20 in the tub...but not much more than that. he
said the spray is a poison and it won't work if it isn't sprayed where they
are coming in at-- because otherwise he'd spray and in a week we'd be
calling him back saying they're back. At least he was honest. He didn't even
charge us the normal fee they charge for the inspection ($55)...this is a
smaller local owned company, so they don't normally do the free estimates
etc, they normally charge for the inspection.

We plan to call him back when we figure out where they are coming from
though and have him spray...