Oh, those ladybugs! They like white walls, they like to be warm and they swarm and collect by the hundreds. During the day they are everywhere; crawling up your coffee cup, landing on the rim of your glasses, the book you are reading, and on the table where you are paying bills. At night, they disappear--only to seemingly multiply and reappear the next day. They have infiltrated Floyd County, they have infiltrated my house. If you don't have them, then I must have your fair share. Feel free to come over and take some home by the bucket load.
Supposedly they are a beneficial insect, if we could just get them to go back outside. Certainly they came from that direction, right? Meanwhile, I do as a friend suggested. I vacuum the dead ladybug bodies and let the ones that are alive, live to crawl another day.
To read more about the wonderful MALB (Multicolored Asian Lady Beetles) go here.
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I'm taking a wee bite of dark chocolate even though I'm diabetic because I just can't resist!
Thanks for visiting my site. I think you will love blogging..it's just a neat place to express what's rolling around inside you and even neater when you actually get feedback!
I've heard such great things about Floyd, I know you are lucky to live there. It is a place where my creativity in writing and perhaps music could really flourish. I did write the music and lyrics to a song I recorded in a studio and posted it Sat. Jan. 27th, with the words and pictures of me in the studio,and it's the one that plays when you go on my blog. Was a highlight for me.
We had those ladybugs a few years ago and they really stung when they bit! Maybe they just flew down there from up in Canada!
I know people around here (Boston) who buy ladybugs through the mail to help their gardens grow. Maybe you could start shipping them north.
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