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This isn't a rant exactly...

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:35 pm
by liberator
...but I've been invaded. :o

In the last 4 hours nearly 20 ladybugs of various spot counts have appeared from nowhere and are busy walking around the walls of my trailer. :(

I don't know how to get rid of them! I got an Ultrasonic doohickey that is suppose to keep vermin out, but it doesn't work very well, I need to figure out how to ramp the volume I guess.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:38 pm
by Moonsword
Raid. Lots and lots of Raid.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:39 pm
by Hammer
Nothin beats an old fashioned squashing :razz:

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:39 pm
by Goober5000
Ladybugs are good. They don't bite you and they keep out other bugs.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:39 pm
by Flipside
Are they Bushbugs (Red with white spots) or Treebugs (Black with white spots)?

If it's the former, put a bright light outside the door, they tend to behave like moths at times. If it's the latter, you have problems, since they prefer hiding in the undergrowth to flying away :(

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:44 pm
by Petrarch
Just be grateful that you won't be bothered by aphids.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:47 pm
by Moonsword
Those are the things that ants sometimes herd, right?

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:51 pm
by Flipside
Yep, greenfly.

Bluebottles are the worst of the lot though, I hate those evil-looking disease carrying, vomiting-on-food little bastards.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:53 pm
by Moonsword
Thank you for that description, Flipside. So you don't like them, eh?

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:58 pm
by Taristin
Lady bugs are red with black spots, Flip.

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:07 am
by Flipside
There are several kinds of ladybird..

http://www.ladybird-survey.pwp.blueyond ... ndonla.htm

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:17 am
by Hammer
Wow, more pieces of useless info :razz:

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:25 am
by Flipside
LOL In my experience, there is no such thing as useless information ;)

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:26 am
by Taristin
Yeah, I usually find myself relating some pointless fact to some other pointless fact, almost on a daily basis...

Amazing, really.

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:27 am
by Moonsword
Don't worry, sometimes it's actually informative and/or amusing.

Besides, I'm the same way.