hoggerhead
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Anybody else have an over abundance of lady bugs? I have SWARMS of them outside today, im not talking bout a few, im talking bout hundreds.
Ladybugs galore!
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ditchdoc666
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They have really gotten bad in the last few days,at my ems station in sale creek they have about taken over hundreds of them all over the walls and the glass bay doors and will land on any part of your body and stay there.Must be time for them now I guess
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If you want some more you can come to my hose and get these, I don't need them. You can also have a bunch of yellow jackets that stay under my apple tree.
I have a few lady bugs not many .. my horrible yellow jacket problem of a few weeks ago is down to just a few stragglers barely hanging on, when I first pulled my boat in to start the rebuild, I could barely walk in the yard with out 50 bees at my feet buzzing around .. this week end I had a few dive bomb me .. they appeared confused and discombobulated.
The one pesky problem that I had was huge hornets .. I had 3 that would not leave me alone.. I'm not sure what kind of bees these are but they are a good 2 inches long and half inch wide, they look wicked .. they kept flying into me .. non of them ever stung me .. but I was getting nervous.. one landed in fresh resin and now he's for ever entombed in resin lol
The one pesky problem that I had was huge hornets .. I had 3 that would not leave me alone.. I'm not sure what kind of bees these are but they are a good 2 inches long and half inch wide, they look wicked .. they kept flying into me .. non of them ever stung me .. but I was getting nervous.. one landed in fresh resin and now he's for ever entombed in resin lol
2 days ago I said to myself the ladybugs must be not gonna hatch this year.....lo and behold this afternoon I looked out across my hayfield and the sun was catching them just right and there were 10s of thousands in the air.
NRG those are what we call Bowater bees.....supposedly a Japanese bee brought here 30-40 years a ago by Bowater to control a beetle eating up all their pine trees. Least ways that was what I was told by somebody. Generally they arent prone to sting but the one or 2 people I know that have been stung say they pack a wallop. They hate light at nite and will try to sting the bulb. About 15 years ago I came home( the last place I lived k-town) from working a job in Indy about 3 in the morning and was looking thru the mail after turning on the light and heard something hit the ceiling fan. I looked up and there were about 20 of them bees trying to kill it . Came in around the air conditioner. Got out the hornet spray and spent about an hour killing them. I came home about 2 weeks later and an old wooden keg the flying sqirrels used to live in was laying on the ground with a rag jammed in the hole. I kicked it a little and you could here`em a hummin`. The Landlord said he had plugged it up about a week before ...and they were still alive. They a scary lookin` things for sure. The always like to check me out up in my face when I`m about 20 foot up a ladder.
NRG those are what we call Bowater bees.....supposedly a Japanese bee brought here 30-40 years a ago by Bowater to control a beetle eating up all their pine trees. Least ways that was what I was told by somebody. Generally they arent prone to sting but the one or 2 people I know that have been stung say they pack a wallop. They hate light at nite and will try to sting the bulb. About 15 years ago I came home( the last place I lived k-town) from working a job in Indy about 3 in the morning and was looking thru the mail after turning on the light and heard something hit the ceiling fan. I looked up and there were about 20 of them bees trying to kill it . Came in around the air conditioner. Got out the hornet spray and spent about an hour killing them. I came home about 2 weeks later and an old wooden keg the flying sqirrels used to live in was laying on the ground with a rag jammed in the hole. I kicked it a little and you could here`em a hummin`. The Landlord said he had plugged it up about a week before ...and they were still alive. They a scary lookin` things for sure. The always like to check me out up in my face when I`m about 20 foot up a ladder.
Fishin Fool
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Ditto for me and the ladybugs. I have got hundreds. I just wish they had gotten here in the spring. The aphids just about killed every tomato I planted, even dusting them. I have gotten down in the dumps this year over the garden. It seems you have to fight the drought, and if you win there, you have to fight the bugs even harder.
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Snuffy, people around here call the hornet looking things "News Bees", don't know where they got that name but they look like a huge hornet to me and they will get right in your face at times.
smokinbasser
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Those huge wasps were challenging the hummingbirds at their feeder earlier this season and most were winning the challenges. I just noticed the lady bugs and have been finding a few more in the house each day.
You are susposed to be able to tell the severity of the winter by the hybernation places of Ladybugs. I wonder if they are trying to find somewhere warm for the winter. If so we may get a good on this year. I have a few here but nowhere near the numbers you guys are reporting.</p>
Luketrician
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I hear ya on the ladybugs...they invaded my garage yesterday...there must be hundreds of them dang things there. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Guess I'll have to get them up with a shop-vac? They are everywhere here in sale creek...went to a friends house in Birchwood yesterday and there wasn't a ladybug in sight. (?)
Guess I'll have to get them up with a shop-vac? They are everywhere here in sale creek...went to a friends house in Birchwood yesterday and there wasn't a ladybug in sight. (?)
It must be a the NEWS print made by the Bowater paper mills !!!! who knows........... either way it is another one of those quick fixes that they didn`t know about the exotic species brought in to do and job with out knowing what the consequences might be in the future. As far as I know they haven`t been an extreme problem like kudzu or zebra mussels...... unless they get in your face.
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I agree with all on the lady bug problem, about tired of seeing them buzzing around my lights
