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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV

It's so quiet...

I don't remember a weekend ever being this quiet on here, save for when they first started this site.  

 

Maybe that's a very good sign.  🙂  

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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

Are they still coming into your house?

 


@GabeUwrote:

 

 

This is what I collected from my front window in an hour's time this morning...

 

 

 


 

GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV


@maratsadewrote:

Are they still coming into your house? 


Like a nonstop army.  😞    

GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV


@maratsadewrote:

Do exterminators get rid of them successfully


I certainly hope so.  😛  

maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

You're living in some kind of horror movie, @GabeU.  LOL

GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV


@maratsadewrote:

You're living in some kind of horror movie, @GabeU.  LOL


Nah.  It's not that bad.  It could be worse.  I could be livin' in a van down by the river!  😛  

GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV

Here's a closeup of one.  You can see the upside down M shape (in the white) at the top of its head.  That's how you can tell that it's an Asian Ladybug.  This one pictured doesn't have any spots on its back, but most of them do.  

 

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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

That's a great pic, Gabe.  I think I have the same type of beetle. 

 


@GabeUwrote:

Here's a closeup of one.  You can see the upside down M shape (in the white) at the top of its head.  That's how you can tell that it's an Asian Ladybug.  This one pictured doesn't have any spots on its back, but most of them do.  

 

 

 


 

GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV


@maratsadewrote:

That's a great pic, Gabe.  I think I have the same type of beetle.

I certainly hope not.  If so, be careful.  If they get a foothold God help you.  They're incessant.  

maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

These ARE actually the ones I get every winter -- they come in, congragate in corners, and slowly die off, though I guess some go out in the spring.  

GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV


@maratsadewrote:

These ARE actually the ones I get every winter -- they come in, congragate in corners, and slowly die off, though I guess some go out in the spring.  


Mine couldn't die off quickly enough.  LOL.  And there're always more.  😞  

maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

Oh yes. I think they come in to reproduce, so we'll always get more.  I read somewhere that once they get into a home, they always come back. 

GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV


@maratsadewrote:

I read somewhere that once they get into a home, they always come back.

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In the meantime, in the Sweetpea household, we just hatched a mantis ootheca and have a jar of fruit flies to feed the two surviving nymphs, lol.

While Gabe hopes to eradicate his home of pests, we invite them in, lol!
maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

Ask Gabe to supply you with ladybirds -- he's a dealer.  LOL

GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV


@Sweetpea3829wrote:
In the meantime, in the Sweetpea household, we just hatched a mantis ootheca and have a jar of fruit flies to feed the two surviving nymphs, lol.

That's cool.  You've got to post some pics!   

Lol, when they are big enough to eat ladybirds, I'll have Gabe send me some of his stock😂😂😂

Gabe, I promise to post pics if they get large enough, lol. Every single one died within hours of hatching, except two.

They are cool, though. We usually have hundreds of nymphs in our field.
maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

"We usually have hundreds of nymphs in our field. "

 

Do they look anything like this?

 

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV

@maratsade

 

I appreciate the info.  Looks interesting.  

maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

I'm the type of person who would probably buy one ready-made.  LOL

 


@GabeUwrote:

 

 

I appreciate the info.  Looks interesting.  


 


@maratsadewrote:

"We usually have hundreds of nymphs in our field. "

 

Do they look anything like this?

 

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HAHAHAHA!  

 

Sadly...all of our nymphs died.  😞  I can't figure out why, either.  

maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV

That's sad. Poor nymphs.

 


@Sweetpea3829wrote:

 

Sadly...all of our nymphs died.  😞  I can't figure out why, either.