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Having my shower this morning and watching a ladybird walking on the
wall near the window thinking to myself don't fly into the shower spray but it took off and landed on the window blind. On looking closer I counted 7 ladybirds clambering over the window and blind, some where red or yellow with up to 10 black spots, a few where black with 4 red spots. I have seen the odd one in the house before but not of this quantity, does that mean we are going to have a plague of them this year? Bazza |
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"Bazza" wrote in message ... Having my shower this morning and watching a ladybird walking on the wall near the window thinking to myself don't fly into the shower spray but it took off and landed on the window blind. On looking closer I counted 7 ladybirds clambering over the window and blind, some where red or yellow with up to 10 black spots, a few where black with 4 red spots. I have seen the odd one in the house before but not of this quantity, does that mean we are going to have a plague of them this year? Bazza Hi Bazza , Don't know much about ladybirds but this might help you http://www.harlequin-survey.org/reco...istinction.htm All I know is they eat greenfly (good) and the little buggers bite (bad) HTH Wally |
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Wally wrote:
"Bazza" wrote in message ... Having my shower this morning and watching a ladybird walking on the wall near the window thinking to myself don't fly into the shower spray but it took off and landed on the window blind. On looking closer I counted 7 ladybirds clambering over the window and blind, some where red or yellow with up to 10 black spots, a few where black with 4 red spots. I have seen the odd one in the house before but not of this quantity, does that mean we are going to have a plague of them this year? Bazza Hi Bazza , Don't know much about ladybirds but this might help you http://www.harlequin-survey.org/reco...istinction.htm All I know is they eat greenfly (good) and the little buggers bite (bad) HTH Wally Had a look at the site, mine are harlequins, good if they eat aphids but bad if they displace our native species still I always transport a few to my greenhouse to help control the aphids so they will be as good as any. |
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On 4/4/08 10:16, in article ,
"Bazza" wrote: Having my shower this morning and watching a ladybird walking on the wall near the window thinking to myself don't fly into the shower spray but it took off and landed on the window blind. On looking closer I counted 7 ladybirds clambering over the window and blind, some where red or yellow with up to 10 black spots, a few where black with 4 red spots. I have seen the odd one in the house before but not of this quantity, does that mean we are going to have a plague of them this year? Bazza That's curious. Talking to my son on the phone yesterday, he said the French windows in his study were 'swarming' with ladybirds inside the house. I told him to open the windows and encourage them into the garden. I wonder what could cause this. Whatever it is, I hope they're the welcome ones. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Hello All
In article , Sacha wrote: On 4/4/08 10:16, in article , "Bazza" wrote: Having my shower this morning and watching a ladybird walking on the wall near the window thinking to myself don't fly into the shower spray but it took off and landed on the window blind. On looking closer I counted 7 ladybirds clambering over the window and blind, some where red or yellow with up to 10 black spots, a few where black with 4 red spots. I have seen the odd one in the house before but not of this quantity, does that mean we are going to have a plague of them this year? Bazza That's curious. Talking to my son on the phone yesterday, he said the French windows in his study were 'swarming' with ladybirds inside the house. I told him to open the windows and encourage them into the garden. I wonder what could cause this. Whatever it is, I hope they're the welcome ones. This thread in most interesting. I am near Ipswich in East Anglia, and until this Spring had not seen a harlequin ladybird. However I have found 2 on the inside of a window, and another member of our local garden club has had the same experience. It looks as though the last generation from last year seems to have hibernated in our nice warm houses. The problem is that I have not seen any of our native ones yet. They usually hibernated in my garden shed. Are the harlequins awake too early, and going to suffer from lack of food and the cold snap this weekend, or are they going to get off to a rapid start, and swamp us and our native ones ? John -- John Rye Hadleigh IPSWICH England http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jrye/index.html --- On Line using an Acorn StrongArm RiscPC --- |
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"Wally" wrote in message ... "Bazza" wrote in message ... Having my shower this morning and watching a ladybird walking on the wall near the window thinking to myself don't fly into the shower spray but it took off and landed on the window blind. On looking closer I counted 7 ladybirds clambering over the window and blind, some where red or yellow with up to 10 black spots, a few where black with 4 red spots. I have seen the odd one in the house before but not of this quantity, does that mean we are going to have a plague of them this year? Bazza Hi Bazza , Don't know much about ladybirds but this might help you http://www.harlequin-survey.org/reco...istinction.htm All I know is they eat greenfly (good) and the little buggers bite (bad) I read last year that Harlequin ladybirds are a Bad Thing and will displace our native 3-spot and 7-spot. Harlequins have been appearing much more frequently in our garden than the native ones which is a cause for worry. They also overwintered indoors in my house, I found at least 10 over the past six months. someone |
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