In response to Kim Williamson post: Finding Ladybugs in your home, My first response was that which species of ladybug are you talking about? Most of the Ladybugs I have researched and studied migrate up to the high country, with the exception of one species the "Asian Lady Beetle" They are native to asia and use caves to dwell in. Back in the early 60's In the farm belt the Lima bean farmers cryed "Wolf" or "Aphids" to be correct to the gov. The Gov. went into action, first they contacted the chem. companies and asked it they had a pesticide to combat the high population of aphids eating their crop of lima beans the chem. company said, no but we can experiment, so the gov found an Ag. expert this Ag. expert said, the aphids were Asian aphids so he recommended getting Asian Ladybugs to eat the Asian aphids. So without any futher research they imported thousand and thousand of Asian Ladybugs and release them in the farm belt. The plan worked the Asian Ladybugs eat the Aphids. But with one big problem it turns out the Asian Aphids were incorrectly ID's and they were American Aphids, without knowing the Asian Ladybeetle's migration habbits, nesting habbits or eating habbits the release them to the USA. Now people are complaining that the Asian ladybeetle has over shadowed the local species taken over territory and the biggest problem is instead of migrating to the mountains like the local species of Ladybugs they instead like to live in your home or house. You can see videos of people showing the hundreds of asian ladybugs in on the walls and windows. I would recommend you look at these ladybugs closer to see what species they really are. If they are Asian Ladybugs I would use a sock on the end of a valcume and capture them then get them out of your house. To learn more on Ladybugs go the new blog History of the Ladybug:
http://historyoftheladybug.blogspot.com/
