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Pest experts warn you should never squish ladybugs inside your home โ here's why
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Doesn't everybody just let them outside?
What in the...
My parents have a cabin in the countryside near fields and at some periods of the years there's hundreds of them inside, crawling on the windows. You end up squishing some involuntarily, just walking around.
They vacuum them outside but it's kind of useless as they just come back.
EDIT: The windows facing the sun just look like this
They get everywhere. Recently we opened some walls and there's just ladybug carcasses everywhere. Removing a wall trim? Ladybugs behind it. Changing a light fixture? Dead ladybugs everywhere in the ceiling. Most of the cabin must be constituted of ladybug cadavers.
Iโd wager this photo was taken in the fall and these are probably Asian ladybugs. Ladybugs generally will aggregate in an outside location suitable for overwintering (e.g: under tree bark). Asian ladybugs specifically have a preference for human structures and as youโve seen, get into everything. Sometimes they dehydrate and die, leaving you little memories of their past lives.
Fun fact. The ladybugs you buy at the garden store in the spring are often collected during this diapause period.