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youthere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:06 PM
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MOTHER F%$@ING LADYBUGS!!
Asian beetles..Ladybugs..Whatever. The little bastards are everywhere! The weather turned warm again and they are swarming over everything. They stink when you smash them, they leave orange stains all over, and they bite like crazy! SON OF A BITCH!!!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:09 PM
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1. I have a herd of them in my house RIGHT NOW!
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:25 PM
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2. I've had seasons when they did that
It was freaky! I mean ladybugs are cute, but a brazillion of them covering your house? Not so much.

It must be an off season, I don't have them this year. But we also have and exterminator (I like to call him Mr. Eye Candy *drool*...but I digress) who comes every few months to treat our windows, shutters, and attic which has cut down on our buggies quite a bit. The years of cluster fly and ladybug invasions made it necessary
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Arger68 Donating Member (562 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:29 PM
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3. They're combining soybeans like crazy here
in the Midwest, that's why they're so thick in the fall. We're infested here as well.:mad:
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 05:33 PM
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4. Guess what else? If you accidentally crunch one that got in your ICED TEA
They are the bitterest, nastiest things in the world, and it takes HOURS to get the taste out of your mouth. Brushing, gum, NOTHING takes it away but time.


Happened to me, got some tea and an ice cube and the foreign bug, crunched it up cause I did not know it was there and YUCK, OMG, YUCK

Real ladybugs are littler and more pink.

Bleh
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 07:34 PM
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5. Asian Beetles
We haven't been bothered by them yet, I usually sit with a fly swatter handy and knock them out of the air, even with the heat we've had the last couple of days they haven't shown up, yet.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 07:56 PM
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6. We use real ladybugs for pest control
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 08:00 PM
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7. They're really cute one at a time. Helpful with Aphids.
But I saw a nest or whatever they have one time. There were hundreds, make that thousands of them. Never thought ladybugs could gross me out.
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:42 PM
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8. They bite?
I've never heard of that.
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Clark2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-04-06 10:45 PM
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9. I know! Freaked me out when I heard that too!
I can understand they're bitter. Heck, I can even understand that, in swarms, they can cause allergies (from their dung, of course), but they bite? People, not aphids? Since when?
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-05-06 01:01 AM
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10. no ladybug ever bit me
what did you say to them?
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