@maratsadewrote:
I've never had a ladybird bite me, but I have heard people say they've been bitten by them. I always get them in the house in late fall, when they come in to spend the winter. Most of them congregate in a corner of the laundry room and mostly stay there till the spring, but others roam around the house and land on things. I'd never heard of raising them in their own habitat! Must be fascinating for the kids, I'm sure!
Most of them don't bite, but these kind are just awful. These aren't the cute little kind you see in kids stories and find sitting on flowers in the spring. These are darker and nastier. They must just like something about my house. All homes around here deal with these things, but most are like yours, where you see a few toward the fall and that's about it. My folks' house is the same way. They have a few in their laundry room windows, and then they're gone until the next year, where again, there are only a few.
But, in my home I'm just lucky. I get to deal with thousand upon thousands of them over the year. Since they started "stirring" at the end of January, I wouldn't doubt that I've dispatched nearly 1000. If I have a day where I only deal with 20 I'm lucky. And they're attracted to lights, so the windows have them during the day, then the lights at night, and if I have the TV on after all the lights are off, it's inevitable that, within a few minutes, one will be crawling on the screen.
They also swarm once or twice a year, so during those days it's just best to not even go outside, lest your covered with them in no time. My house is small, but during these times I wouldn't doubt that there are 5000 or more sitting on it at any given time. It's awful. I'd rather deal with termite swarms, to be honest.
https://www.thespruce.com/good-and-bad-ladybugs-2656236
