Ladybugs (was Re: Storm Doors & Storm Windows in the UK)

[ellejir]

Annemehr wrote:

> Annemehr, who notices an inordinate number of orange lady-bug things
> around Pittsburgh this autumn.

Lucky you if this is the *first* year that they have shown up at your 
house!  We have been plagued by them in Virginia for at least five or 
six years now.  They seem to come out (?in?) when the weather is cold 
and it suddenly gets warm again.  They are called Asian ladybugs, and 
I believe they were imported to eat aphids or something (probably by 
the same idiot who brought over kudzu...)  Unlike normal, red-
blooded, apple-pie-eating American ladybugs (who would *never* be 
caught dead inside the house), the Asian variety love to swarm around 
windows and doors on the sunny side of the house (inside and out) and 
leave marks all over the walls and draperies. YUCK!

Elle (recommending that Annemehr gets herself a dust-buster to help 
deal with the ladybug influx)