gill wrote:
Has anyone had experience with raising their own ladybugs? Any advice?
gil

We had a nest develop in our den once - it was interesting having
thousands of small ladybugs developing in a room - even though we
captured as many as we could and released them, there were always (OK,
for a year at least) thirty or forty buzzing around.

Did you know they do bite humans, albeit under severe provocation?