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lady bug larvae all over
I know lady bug larvae won't hurt me, and they eat bad bugs. But they aren't good looking, kind of freak me out, and are all over my room. Probably because it's winter, but it's annoying to be reading a book and find little brown bugs crawling on your curtains. My mom finds them and lets them out the window. I'm pretty sure there are still more. My mom says they'll be red and pretty soon, but does that mean I'll have millions of adult lay bugs making homes in my room, mating and eating the junk food I bring in? Will they make more, and my room will turn into a lady bug hotel?
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I am posting a couple links. Outdoors, the ladybugs will do the same as bears and hibernate over winter huddling together under leaves to keep them protected, or if you have built ladybug homes to place in your yard this spring, they will get used to their homes and use these to overwinter in hopefully next year. In fall they begin to look for a warmer place to go. The first link on wikipedia also shares a unique way to remove them from the home using a nylon stocking and hose of your vacumn. You can look up how to make ladybug homes on line and what to do to attract them to these homes, like shallow lids with water no deeper than their height and a couple raisens for food.
I think it would be a great project to make a cheap homemade one for now, gather them, put in a couple raisons and some dried fall leaves for insulation and put the ones you collect into the outdoor home. They have memories of where they go to overwinter so it may take some effect to keep doing this before the majority are successfully staying re located.
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When it becomes warm enough outdoors during the day, the ladybugs will vacate the house to go looking for the pest bugs they like to eat in the garden. For at night when its still cooler, you'll want to attract them to the ladybug houses.
There are gardeners who will go to gardening shops or order ladybugs on line for their garden. Usually the ones bought are the native variety that don't tend to want to overwinter indoors. But if a gardener doesnt care what type it is, you might be able to give away or sell your ladys to a neighbor for their garden.
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