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No, as usual, I got no valentines but I did get a swarm of biting ladybugs!
Every spring I post on Mingle that the ladybugs are biting me and no one cares. This year no one can care early as global warming is sending the little bastards my way on Valentine's Day!! They BITE! And ... they are spreading! And they stink! And they crap on the ceiling! Quote: The beetles, which are not native to the United States, were introduced into this country about 20 years ago in order to control the population of orchard aphids that were infesting pecan trees in the Southeast. But the beetles spread rapidly and now inhabit Florida, the Northeast, Ohio, Illinois, and the Mid-Atlantic. “They eat anything that’s slow enough and soft for them to catch. They have a broad range of eating habits, and are displacing some of our native ladybugs. Any place where they are in abundance, it’s hard to find our native ladybugs,” Berenbaum said. The beetles’ strong jaws make them especially well suited as insect predators, said Berenbaum, who believes that some beetles are interested in finding out whether people make a tasty treat. “My impression is that based on the way they live their lifestyle, they bite you just to see if you’re edible. If you grab them, they bite you for defensive mechanism. They have strong mandibles and it hurts,” Berenbaum said. First-year graduate student Susan Ferrari was a victim of a particularly aggressive Asian Lady Beetle, which she mistook for the gentler, less vicious ladybug. “They bite your eyes,” she said. “It hurts a lot.” According to Martin Feder, a professor in the department of organismal biology and anatomy, the recent heat wave may have caused the beetles to come out for one last gasp of activity before retiring for the winter. “It’s my impression that the unusually high temperatures are allowing them to be very active,” Feder said. First-year in the College David Meisner has encountered several problems with the beetles but said that the infestation can be beneficial. “In one of my classes, the whole ceiling was covered with them,” Meisner said. “During class they were a distraction, but they also keep you awake because they bite you.” The U.S. growing population of the beetles makes Berenbaum worry about the harm being done to native species. “They’re doing incalculable damage to soft-bodied insects that aren’t doing damage to anybody,” she said. The beetles have even displaced many native ladybug species, causing concern in the community of entomologists, according to experts. “If they haven’t displaced all, [they have displaced] certainly a lot of them. People who keep track of these sorts of things are kind of alarmed. They’re taking over the good guys,” Berenbaum said. Berenbaum fears that the beetles’ aggressive behavior is reversing the historically positive attitude that humans have had for ladybugs. “I guess they’re the bad apples in the ladybug bowl,” Berenbaum said. “These are predacious ladybugs that everyone up to this point in history have had affection for. Farmers really like them. They’re completely ruining the image of ladybugsthey bite and they smell bad.” |
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I do not understand your lament. But I wish you a happy Valentines Day just the same.
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Though most people think of ladybugs as being a beneficial insect, the Asian Lady Bug can be a nuisance pest as described in our Asian Ladybug Control article. Once inside, you'll have to treat with the PHANTOM AEROSOL get their numbers down till the spring. At that point you should do a good liquid treatment with the Cypermethrin to get them as they leave the structure. This will cut down on the numbers that return the following fall. At that time you'll need to treat again to keep them from coming back inside where they'll want to hibernate and harass you all winter. Asian Ladybug bites will happen as you encounter them during this time so keeping them out in the fall is key. And in some cases it will take 1-2 years to completely be rid of them once your home is infested so hopefully you don't have that bad of an infestation just yet.
http://www.asianladybug.com/bites/ladybug-bites.html |
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I do not understand your lament. But I wish you a happy Valentines Day just the same. My lament is ladybugs are biting my azz! Thank you for the nice Valentine wishes! |
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Though most people think of ladybugs as being a beneficial insect, the Asian Lady Bug can be a nuisance pest as described in our Asian Ladybug Control article. Once inside, you'll have to treat with the PHANTOM AEROSOL get their numbers down till the spring. At that point you should do a good liquid treatment with the Cypermethrin to get them as they leave the structure. This will cut down on the numbers that return the following fall. At that time you'll need to treat again to keep them from coming back inside where they'll want to hibernate and harass you all winter. Asian Ladybug bites will happen as you encounter them during this time so keeping them out in the fall is key. And in some cases it will take 1-2 years to completely be rid of them once your home is infested so hopefully you don't have that bad of an infestation just yet. http://www.asianladybug.com/bites/ladybug-bites.html That sounds like a real plan! First I think I will squirt their home areas with wasp spray. |
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We have those here too Metalwing. Imagine my surprise and dismay when I looked down to find a cute and sweet ladybug on my arm and then the little bastard bit me!!! I still didn't squish it because I can't bring myself to squish a ladybug but I was awfully tempting.
Btw...I didn't get a Valentine either so I got myself a flower that will never die :) |
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We have those here too Metalwing. Imagine my surprise and dismay when I looked down to find a cute and sweet ladybug on my arm and then the little bastard bit me!!! I still didn't squish it because I can't bring myself to squish a ladybug but I was awfully tempting. Btw...I didn't get a Valentine either so I got myself a flower that will never die :) I'm betting you get over that "cute and sweet" part pretty quick.  They make a satisfying "crunch".
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Ewww
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So metalwing, are you saying you want biting ladybugs every year for valentines day?
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So metalwing, are you saying you want biting ladybugs every year for valentines day? Hahaha...and a root canal every year for Christmas. |
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So metalwing, are you saying you want biting ladybugs every year for valentines day? Hahaha...and a root canal every year for Christmas. No kidding !!
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