In remodeling a cabin this summer I wondered as to their wind blocking and insulating properties as they had filled ever crack & crevasse under the siding but had not survived the desiccation of the winter.
We have had several commitments to mental wards around here of housewives unable to keep up with vacuuming "every one of them" out of their homes as they (the bugs), waken and become active inside abodes at every warm spell till hightailing it back to work in the spring.
We had fewer this year so they must be migrating to warmer climes as they figure out this confusing country.
The pesticide man that had the audacity to show up with an offer to eliminate them one orange colored fall day was very hasty in backing out the drive when I told him I dealt with pest with my 20guage and it was just here in the closet.
I guess my neck scarf must have slipped wide that week.
Blessed 03
L*L
Markess
From: "The Korrows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:02:30 -0600
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Subject: Re: more buggy questions
> But why now? there isn't anything for them to eat, and it's too cold
> for them to be very active, yet year after year, they always do it.
The ladybugs have been coming out around here also. Insects are very much
connected to the temp, though to understand this relationship we have to
expand our concept a bit. It's not just the temp from a maximum temp point
of view but also from the duration of sustained average temp plus an
internal mechanism that has been bound to their preys temp tolerance and
cycles for a millennium.
If it's happening inside your house it could be a false signal their getting
since the temps in the walls are obviously higher than the ones in say a
barn or a trees bark.Consequentially there are allot of dead ladybugs in the
house from about now till spring. They don't have any food. If it's
happening outside, all one has to do is look close enough & you'll find that
there is something there to sustain them. Insects are incredibly 2
dimensional, food and sex is virtually what they live for. (sounds a little
too much like much humanity for my comfort).
In Love and Light,
(Mr.) Chris
