Pam Moore wrote in
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:20:49 +0100, Rexx wrote:

There's so many ladybirds. Even my nan can't remember anything like we
got this year.

Is it just our house or is everyone getting tons of the orange
ladybirds trying to get indoors? And we live in a very built up area
not in the fields.

In 1976 we had a severe drought and that summer there was a "plague"
of ladybirds. I remember taking my Mum out for a walk on the coast
and the air being full of them, and the ground and plants covered.
It was spectacular but not a nuisance, though there was a report of
some of them "biting". Live and let live.

There was something similar in, I guess, the mid 90s in
Weston-super-Mud. I heard (but not believed) the explanation
that the wind was blowing them towards the sea, and when they
reached the sea they wouldn't/couldn't go any further.

It certainly was spectacular, since there were enough that,
in the abscence of a mask, you wanted to breath through
clenched teeth. Density? IIRC about one every 6 or 12 inches,
in the air and on/in buildings (and waking along branches
that were underwater!)

tom, also in Bristol