Influx of ladybugs/ladybirds ?

underdog

Anyone else? down on the south Wales coast and today I have swarms of ladybugs outside, and hundreds over the Windows.

I remember about 20 years ago there were so many around one day that every lamp post and railing was covered in a layer of them.

not_the_dj

Human Slaves, in an Insect Nation!

VimFuego

guess mags must've had a holiday in Thailand and brought a load back.

 

oh wait, you said bugs, sorry, as you were.

underdog

It's odd as a child l always called them ladybirds, now my wife has conditioned me to call them ladybugs over the years

not_the_dj

underdog said:

It's odd as a child l always called them ladybirds, now my wife has conditioned me to call them ladybugs over the years

Is she an american?

underdog

not_the_dj;394790" said:

underdog said:

It's odd as a child l always called them ladybirds, now my wife has conditioned me to call them ladybugs over the years





Is she an american?

English sadly

Phil_aka_Pip

I've always called those little red flying beetle-y things with spots on "ladybirds". Why would there be another name for them (apart from their latin "scientific" name)?

underdog

Phil_aka_Pip;394811" said:

I've always called those little red flying beetle-y things with spots on "ladybirds". Why would there be another name for them (apart from their latin "scientific" name)?

Not sure, but ladybugs is far closer to accurate I guess

not_the_dj

Ladybugs actually makes more sense to me, as they're certainly bugs and not birds.

Still I call them Ladybirds, and the publishing industry agrees.

imalone

Some people do call them ladybugs. That they're wrong and that the rhyme doesn't scan as well is little comfort. Always nice to see them though, we don't get enough round here. They're considered lucky, but maybe suffocating underneath them is going a bit far.

holnrew

I could do with a couple, Achilli plant I got from Tesco is covered in aphids.

Fuzzdog

We get inundated by swarms of them every year at around this time.  I've probably got probably about 20-30 so on my window as I type this.  It started about five years ago, when I came home to find my lounge absolutely crawling with thousands of them, and they return every year at about the same time.  The main swarm seems to have started to prefer my neighbour, as I regularly hear him swearing and cursing about them. )

They're the weird foreign type which drive my cat mad as they're pretty much inedible and hard to squish effectively.  This does not make for a happy feline.