Controlling Lady Bugs in Your Home

It is on the front page at 8:41 (CST) October 31, 2009. Congratulations, it is an excellent article and certainly worth of the front page, at least in my opinion. You obviously did your research and wrote an informative article that is easily read.

There is a very beneficial Lady Bug on Newsvine.

http://lady-bug.newsvine.com/

Red....My hero....{grinning}

Did you know on the internet you can buy 1500 ladybugs for 6.95....? No kidding...I saw it this morning....and it said that the lady bug is the best way to get rid of pest....hummmm:)

Reading this was like looking at the family photo's...lol

very nice...thanks for the article...

I wish we could buy some virtual lady bugs to eat the "pests" on our articles.

Maybe I can do that....nibble....nibble....lol

Lady Bug, if you could rid the Vine of trolls, you would get not only the sixth leaf, but the undying gratitude of all. LOL

1500 for $6.95 That is about 2 cents per bug. not bad. I did have several ladybugs around my house but it is geting cold so most are gone. I don't bother them, just try not to sit on them and keep them out of the kitchen.

OK ...WOW I'll do my best.....{wink}

Not at all...should I nibble?

I will....{smootches}

The Irish say a cricket on the hearth is good luck.

Yes, I've heard that piece of folklore.

When he entered the house a few weeks ago, he immediately set out to make house rounds...to none other than the fireplace hearth. I imagine it was too cold for the little guy, because he ventured back to my plant room and remained there.

Update: Last night I was sitting in the my plant sun room talking on the phone with a friend, and noticed him walking around. I thought to myself, "perhaps he's lonely and came to say hello." So I decided since it was quite warm outside, as I could hear other crickets chirping outdoors, to gently capture him and set him free to chirp away with his "clan". He's now outside where he really belongs. I hope he finds happiness, his chirp in recent days sounded labored and lonely.

Strider54

My advice? If all else fails get out the vacuum and use the hose on them.

When my brother and I were kids he brought home a praying mantis cocoon and put it in a plastic terrarium with air vents on its lid. Well, soon the cocoon "hatched" and a boatload of little mantises found their ways out through the vents. This was definitely not cool in mom's house, and she promptly got her canister vacuum cleaner out and did exactly as you described.

Too funny!

A primitive, but very effective method, and doesn't use electricity, therefore lowering your carbon footprint. Squash those bugs!

A primitive, but very effective method, and doesn't use electricity, therefore lowering your carbon footprint.

And, you're building up those pecs at the same time!

Thanks for the great article, Dowser.

Grandpastephen

One of the better methods of control for the bad Beatles

Which ones were the bad Beatles? John, Paul, George, Ringo? Or Pete Best maybe? Stu Sutcliffe?

:-)

a BAD beetle....tell me, this can't be true....oh my !

Sydney - 5...I'd love to trade them for some Lady Bugs.

I'm not sure about a trade, but you can buy lady bugs to help with natural pest control at home.

Hi, Pamela Drew,

Thanks. I'll check out the link.

Dennis

See #1.1 above for an instance when control was required.

:-)

Maybe some things are best left alone. :)

Peace and Health,
G

PS-Will wonders never cease. Did you ever think we'd be on the same side of an article!

George

I love the photoshopped honeybee :-)

Can't remember how I voted on the poll, tho.

You're thinking of Osage Orange. Typical old wive's tale, as it turns out.

http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/pest/nebline/hedgeapple.htm

The belief about the use of hedge apples for insect control is widespread and persistent. it is claimed that placing hedge apples around the foundation or inside the basement will repel or control insects. A few years ago, Iowa State University toxicologists extracted compounds from hedge apples. When concentrated, these compounds were found to repel insects.

Scientists also found that natural concentrations of these compounds in the fruit were too low to be an effective repellent. So, don't be fooled into spending much to use hedge apples as an insect repellent.

Publius Redux...You're thinking of Osage Orange. Typical old wive's tale, as it turns out.

We know you love to go to bat for the petrochemical solutions Publius, but maybe Funstra is thinking of something else if your example is one case where the fruit doesn't work.

We can probably find lots that don't work, but we want to look for one that might, eh? Fruit and extracts do have repellant properties as we see from this patent.

Mosquito repellent isolated from Foeniculum vulgare fruit - United States Patent 7179479

The goal is not to rule out what we don't know as impossible, but to search for answers along with sharing information to learn. What we don't know always exceeds what we do know as individuals and as humanity collectively. Questioning is the only way to expand our knowledge.

Science Daily - September 26, 2009 - Fruit flies actually have a love-hate relationship with the smell of fruit. And a new insight into the chemistry of that attraction and repulsion could lead to novel repellents for other insects, researchers say.

Well, keep searching then.

You certainly are offended by facts, PD. It's an old wive's tale. So what? It only makes it the more quaint, sort of like The Farmers Almanac. You fly off mad like someone offended your religion, or something.

No one even mentioned "petrochemical solutions" until you came stumbling in tonight.

Fruit may not repel bugs but facts seem to do a wonderful job of repelling kwackzalvers and conspiracy theorists. Let's keep hanging facts in our attics, with or without the nylon stocking.

Publius Redux...You certainly are offended by facts, PD. It's an old wive's tale. So what? It only makes it the more quaint, sort of like The Farmers Almanac. You fly off mad like someone offended your religion, or something.

Hardly accurate, you suggested that using fruit is nothing but a useless effort to repel insects and I added links and a patent to show it is not the case. There's verifiable science in the theory. It may seem that facts entered into a discussion is mad, but to each his own.

PR...No one even mentioned "petrochemical solutions" until you came stumbling in tonight.

It was just a note to acknowledge your unwavering support for agribusiness and toxic remedies that helps to give context to the quick quashing of any suggestion of possible, natural alternatives.

Publius Redux....Fruit may not repel bugs but facts seem to do a wonderful job of repelling kwackzalvers and conspiracy theorists

If you read the science article and patent details you see fruit can work as a repellant, but it's clearly ineffective eliminating industry shills promoting toxic answers as the only effective ones!

There are all kinds of solutions to bug problems that don't involve man-made chemicals, and many of them work well.

Do you know anything about "no-see-ums," biting gnats, sand flies, midges, etc.? They adore me and never bother my husband or daughter. And I am one of the 10% who cannot be helped with bug repellent. They are so tiny, they can come through the screens and cracks so they bite me even in bed. The only thing I can find that works is a night light with a sticky board and window sticky boards. I get these at Ace Hardware. I catch hundreds that way but I am still pretty miserable.

Thanks. I will try the insecticide on the screens. Have tried everything else.

Skye-768303

I can tolerate small spiders but not large ones. Since they eat mosquitoes, I am trying to make friends.

I find small spiders fascinating, but I'm not fond of them setting up shop in my living area. Damn, what they can do with those webs. That they dine on insects is a definite plus.

As for the big ones like tarantulas, the farther away the better. During WWII my dad drew an assignment forecasting weather for cross-country military pilots, and the Army Air Corps stationed his unit in the Arizona desert. One time he found a tarantula in his bed, and I gotta say that would have scared the living @!$%# out of me! I think he whacked it with a boot or something. They got that urticating hair thing going on (six different flavors no less), and I don't want no part of that, nosireee bob.

Now the spiders I'm familiar with are loners, but a few years back I read a news article about social spiders. Seems they were miffed by us humans beating them at their own game by creating the World Wide Web so they got to work down in Texas (everything's big in Texas and spiders are apparently no exception) creating their own Web using their native medium.

Well. Arachnophobes you've been warned. Click this link at your own risk.

I'd love to have heard the converation between those two officers haha.

We were staying in a motel in a park once and found a scorpion in our bed. I think they have a tough outer shell and it was very difficult to kill. I would not have slept a wink if it had not been killed. I really think they are more dangerous than spiders.

Skye-768303

About ten years ago I jetted out from my apartment in Manhattan for a spiritual retreat in the woods, oh maybe 50 miles north of San Francisco. I shared a cabin with another dude. Slob that I am, I tossed my clothes in pile next to my bed. Woke up in the morning and started picking up and a black scorpion about an inch and a half long fell out of my shorts onto the wooden floor.

Well. Being an East Coast suburbanite/cityslicker I'd never seen a live one before, but I knew what that mofo was the instant I saw him (her?). I got my sorry ass out of that damned cabin faster than greased lightning.

I can't remember what happened to the scorp, but I didn't get stung!

I dunno who was more scared, the scorp or me. We both got out alive. I think hehe.

I'll charm those snakes.....{look into my eyes}

My daughter still teases him about the Killer Spider...LOL