To think the ladybirds are taking the piss?

[puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE]

I have ladybirds 'hibernating' in my house. I feel I have been very accommodating, but now they are taking the piss!

They are:

• Trying to get into bed with me
• Trying to get into bed with DD (cue screams as we all know how terrifying a ladybird is )
• Dive-bombing me in the shower
• Hiding in the loo roll almost wiped my arse on a ladybird

And generally taking the royal piss!

AIBU to threaten them with eviction?

Im in the Midlands Crazy

When they started coming in it was like the zombie ladybird apocalypse! They were clamouring at the windows to get in!

That tree is amazing magoria

I am so scared of ladybirds.

ExMIL knew this so increased her household population of them just to scare the hell out of me. It worked against her, the buggers refuse to enter her house now. I even caught some committing suicide and flying off outdoors rather than be in her house.

Not sure how she encouraged them in but after the first year of increased numbers they were gone for ever.

I say overpopulate your house and survive one winter with every ladybird within UK camping out in your house and then they will bugger off forever. Could also be the fact I screamed at the fuckers every weekend uni they left

I had no idea there were human versus ladybird battles going on! The closest I've ever come was not being 'allowed' by my DD to cut the grass because she didn't want them hurt ... sorry, my idleness caring nature probably saved the ancestors of the beasts invading your homes now

I once ironed a ladybird by accident. It was in a shirt that had been outside on the line. The resulting orange stain was completely indelible.

Ant powder kills the feckers. You need to pour something bleachy down the outside of your house to remove chemical trails that tell other ladybastards to come party.

You need to bleach the window. We have lady birds and this was advice from pest contol (nb pest control was not round because of ladybirds I just asked whilst they were here).

I think you need to bleach in winter then they don't come back in summer. Or maybe visa versa.

I lived in an old rambling farmhouse and had this every.single.bloody.year and they used to drown themselves in my nightly glass of water. Gak. Anyway, my advice is to not use the vacuum cleaner to vacuum up living ladybirds - they will kill it. Honestly, the smell is awful and the buggers clog it up. No real advice otherwise, sorry! Just don't use your hoover, it's too expensive a solution and they seem to live in it and pay you back.

But they are cute.

we had this last year

their pee smells really strong for such tiny little things

or is it a repellent

we had greenfly too one eats the other can not remember who eats who. I sprayed fly spray they eventually got the message and left or it was the influx of spiders that got rid of them

We had a huge colony outside on our wall last year.

Found them cute until they started biting. DH still doesn't believe me.

I can't seem to smell them, although I do have a cold. I can't believe they are caving pheromones, luring in other ladybirds like some kind of ladybird brothel!

I thought this was going to be a thread moaning about unreasonable behaviour from the popular female vocal harmony trio.

Ladybirds are the devils minions.... I hate them with a passion!! Always have. Urrrggghhhh

We have stinkbugs all over here. I was exiled to the bedroom last week due to strep throat, and there were three of them in there with me! I went to wipe my nose, there was one on the tissue box. I went to get a drink of water, there was one on my straw. I kind of started to like them.

Ugh I hate ladybirds when they start swarming and coming in my home it really freaks me out. You realise those little bastids BITE...... burn your house down... don't look back.....run for the hills....

I don't really want to burn my house down

We had the little buggers in our bathroom windows. There's nothing you can do this year except note where they all are and clean the area and then in September spray it liberally with hairspray

Not true that you can't do anything. Ant powder.

Does ant powder burn them or something? I don't think I could cope with thousands of screaming, burning ladybirds

Fly spray works for us but you then need to hoover up later. Would guess ant powder could get messy especially if is over the top of a door or window which is where ours seem to nest.

See, this is why I love MN. It's like there's always someone, somewhere thinking the exact same as me!

I noticed a couple of ladybirds in the bathroom yesterday morning. "That's odd," thought I, "I thought they all died in the winter." Meant to google and find out the life cycle of a ladybird but I forgot. This morning there were five of the blighters watching me have a shower, which freaked me out a bit so I admit I did knock them all into the bath and rinse them down the plughole. I will now be bleaching windowframes and buying ant powder - look out ladybirds!

I love our native ladybirds but we've never had them in swarms as described above. These congregations must be the interlopers so where do you live if you're haunted by them, please? Let the rest of us know if we should be looking out for them.

Midlands for me. Bastards are everywhere!

Midlands for me too.

lshidmtamsfo

IIRC it just makes them fall down dead. you do have to Hoover them up though