For the love of all that is holy – why are bugs attracted to my house?!? Particularly the inside of my house?!?
This year I’ve had an influx of weird flying black bugs, stink bugs and now the ladybugs are on the attack, at Halloween no less 😳😳.
Yesterday, my dear friend Robb and I had just finished a movie when I noticed a ladybug climbing near the ceiling. Then another and another until those flying creatures were EVERYWHERE on the back wall and floor near the door. It was a nightmare 😱.
Robb started swatting at the higher up ones, as he is very tall, while I ran around the outside of the house to spray the door they were coming through with bug spray. I then returned to the house where we went on a killing spree swatting anything that moved. And every time we thought we had gotten them all, more would pop up 🤬🤬! It must have taken us close to 45 minutes to kill all the ones we could find. And laughing at how ridiculous we must have looked to anyone who could see us running around swinging flyswatters like lunatics.
We finally got the infestation under control and then the clean-up began, the blood… the guts… the bodies 🤢. Did you know that ladybugs bleed orange? Yeah, neither did I 😬😬.
Why is it so hard for bugs to understand, stay out of my house you live. Come inside all bets are off. Fair right?
So Halloween ended up being night of 1000 bugs (Ok 20-30 – I’m prone to hyperbole 🤷♀️ 😁). And at least 6 holdovers that have met their end today.
I’m pretty sure there’s a special place in hell waiting for me because of the great ladybug massacre of Halloween 2022 🤪.
My Lemons My Lemonade 
I too have crafted an understanding with the insects who venture onto our property. If you stay outside the house, we have no quarrel. If you come inside, notify your next of kin. Ironically, we have had a few more ladybugs around here than we normally see, but nothing like the swarm you and your friend fought off. I think you now have the full attention of the ladybugs…if there are any left.
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There has been a real uptick in ladybugs the last few days. Just earlier in the day, I was telling my friend that the ledge outside an upstairs window was covered in the little buggers…
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