Ladybirds

Firecracker

We have 20 ladybirds in the corner of half a dozen (pvc) opening windows, about 10 in a glass lampshade, and loads more clambering to get in round the conservatory windows.

SWMBO has to have the windows open a bit all the time so the little darlings just invite themselves in.

I do put bug houses round the garden,

Just wondering what others do.?

nutcutlet

I don't do anything except not open the French doors. They're all packed in round them and just fall on the floor, inside and out if disturbed. Otherwise they sort themselves out

Dovefromabove

If you need to move them I'd sweep 'em up with a brush and dustpan and deposit them in the greenhouse/garden shed/cold frame or under a hedgerow. 

I remember when we had a ladybird invasion on the East Coast in 2009  - in Cromer you couldn't walk along the clifftop without squashing hundreds of them. 

Apparently the collective noun for ladybirds is 'a loveliness of ladybirds' 

Ladybird4

I have bug houses that they live in but they also nestle in the spaces between leaf stalks and twigs/stems.

nutcutlet

New Year's Day 2016

is that you top left Ladybird?

fidgetbones

I've been knocking them off with a brush into a pot, and relocating them to the bug house.

Ladybird4

You 'spotted' me nutcutlet

nutcutlet

B3

I've seen three this year and two of them bit me

Ladybird4

B3 you are obviously delicious!

Firecracker

Not really Tetley, I was wondering how others help them overwinter. What kind of house do they favour.?I've put out rolled corrugated cardboard in pvc tubing, and the usual bug houses.