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From: Sewhappie
Date: 11-09-2005, 02:38 PM (1 of 9)
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While I still have power before round two of the storms, I am taking a break from scrubbing down walls. Hopefully it will get DH & DS in the mood to put the paint on them once they are clean!!!!! The whole time I have been scrubbing I have been fighting the endless battle with Lady Beetles EVERYWHERE!!!!!  Has anyone found anything safe to get rid of them once and for all short of an Exterminator? It's to the point that my three cats even run from them!!!! If you don't know what a Lady Beetle is, it looks like a Lady Bug except where the Lady Bug is RED the Beetle is a ugly Brown with the black spots, and they BITE! They get into your house anyway they can and just fly and crawl all over everything and get into the walls of your house for the winter season, then come out in the spring. This is about the 5th year that they have been in this area. I wish that who ever brought them here would take them back!!!! |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: Catalina
Date: 11-09-2005, 03:19 PM (2 of 9)
| You and me both! Ugh, I just killed several in my house. We're in MI but I think they are all over. What nasty things. I have no solutions but I have read to vacumn them if you can. |
User: Catalina
Member since: 01-06-2005 Total posts: 119 |
From: debsews
Date: 11-09-2005, 04:48 PM (3 of 9)
| I was at my daughter's house this summer in Summerset, OH and she had a terrible problem with them. You're right about not being able to get rid of them and she had tried everything. They were in every room, in the windows and on the ceilings in the morning. We would get rid of them in the daytime only to have them be right back in the morning. I have no idea where they came from but they're ugly little buggers! I didn't know they bite!! They must breed like crazy! |
User: debsews
Member since: 09-16-2005 Total posts: 254 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-09-2005, 07:58 PM (4 of 9)
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They must breed in the soil....try putting stuff in the lawn. ( living in FL I put stuff in my lawn, on my house, anywhere but inside to get rid of the stupid bugs...) I start in Feb around Valentines Day and once a month thereafter. I'm the only one on the block this year WITHOUT a spider, caterpillar, ant or palmetto bug (BIG flying cockroaches) infestation....that and for some strange reason we've had LOTS of geckos and annoles (small green lizards) that have been living on, in and around my house...YAY for the lizards and geckos !!! (I even had an annole on my car sat. I got him off before he got hurt...silly thing I think he wanted a ride to town....  )
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: debsews
Date: 11-09-2005, 09:20 PM (5 of 9)
| Chrys: I live in central Florida and we have to constantly spray everything in sight to keep the criters at bay. We do constant gecko wrangling to keep them outside and not in the lanai or garage. I had to move my parents out of their house here and when we had the couch moved off the lanei it had a huge black gecko under the cushion. Good thing he didn't get a ride to Ohio or he would have frozen his little tail off! I haven't had any palmetto bugs in quite a while but every now and then I see one in the garage and he's acting a little loopy from the motels I leave everywhere for them to visit!! Love Florida!! |
User: debsews
Member since: 09-16-2005 Total posts: 254 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 11-09-2005, 11:24 PM (6 of 9)
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I don't mind if the lizards and geckos stay outside or in the garage...but when they come in it's a problem...ferrets do what ferrets do...eat things. I once caught Girl (now deceased) smacking her lips, when I asked what she'd been eating, she showed me  , she'd found a palmetto bug on the floor and had eaten it's insides, it's legs were still kicking....I didn't touch her for about a week...I loved her, but yuck...I know it's natural, but I really didn't have to see it... my husband put it in the trash and said she'd done a good job on it... She'd also routinely find a B I G spider...pull all it's legs off and leave it on the floor and the legs in a nice neat pile. I'll say one thing for her, she was neat about her bug eating habits .Luckily we've solved all the bugs comming in problem, that way NONE of the ferrets I have now don't eat anything but food and treats. 
Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
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From: LauraM62
Date: 11-10-2005, 09:35 AM (7 of 9)
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The lady 'lady bugs' are everywhere here in Indiana too! Actually last year our local paper had a big article on this little bugs. They were bought in to help the farmers, these little bugs eat allot of other bugs in the fields to help on using chemicals on the crops. The problem is that once the cropping begins the little bugs have no where to go, so they go to our homes! It is worse if you live in a farming area like we do, smack in the middle of farm fields to the north & east. I simply get the shop vac out just about daily until it gets cold enough to kill them off. They are actually called the Asian Lady Bug ... Ohio State (http://ohioline.osu.edu/hse-fact/1030.html) has some great info on them!
LauraM
SW Indiana If everyone cared and nobody cried; If everyone loved and nobody lied; If everyone shared and swallowed their pride; Then we'd see the day when nobody died --'If Everyone Cared' by Nickelback |
User: LauraM62
Member since: 08-10-2003 Total posts: 246 
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From: AndreaSews
Date: 11-10-2005, 11:11 AM (8 of 9)
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too many beetles! (http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Other/goodpest/note107.html)
Andrea
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User: AndreaSews
Member since: 02-18-2005 Total posts: 1007 
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From: Bama
Date: 11-11-2005, 07:29 PM (9 of 9)
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Gee, I didn't know they left their scent around. That must be why we get ladybugs around the same window every year. Last year a friend of mine had a huge problem with the little critters. She said there were dozens of them crawling on the ceiling. She had been brushing them off with a broom, but they would fly away. She finally took an empty paper towel tube and stuffed a paper towel in one end. She touched it on the ceiling where they were crawling and they fell into the tube. She said she caught alot of them that way. |
User: Bama
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