>>A friend just wrote me that she is inundated with lady bugs in her >>house. Anybody got any ideas of how she can discourage them? >> >>Sarah > >The 'house lady bugs' are most likely an invasive import (more >orange than red) and not to be confused with the ladybugs Rodale >taught us all to treasure. We get 'em and we ignore them for the few >months that they will be here. Heaven knows what they are up to, >clinging to the window above the kitchen sink, but they don't seem >to be eating on anything, or, for that matter, soiling anything, so >we just leave them be. > >If I didn't like them, I'd try playing some Ted Nugent, or >something, really loud until they took a hint. (At least this works >for other unwanted guests.) > >-Allan
Gee. I hadn't thought of that. I suggested she read James Fennimore Cooper out loud to them every night. Sarah
