In article , "gary"
wrote:

The Lady bugs are swarming again. What a mess. They got in the house and
almost cover the walls. When a light is turned on in the evening they are
attracted to it and make more of a mess.

Gary


They're massing to hibernate. If you can tell where they're getting in the
house, you might be able to lay black plastic bags nearby (layered &
staked to the ground) or layers of folded tarpaper, & they'll be attracted
to that because of the heat. When they finish massing, add a light layer
of mulch over the plastic bags or tarpaper. They won't come out from under
that until spring. If they keep coming in the house & you can't seal up
their ingress, maybe you can vacuum them up in a low-powered hand-held
vacuum cleaner & then store them in the bottom of the refrigerator, or in
sphagnum in some corner of the garage or tool shed, until spring when the
garden needs them.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/