Whats the whole story on the Ladybug and Japanese Beetles….?
woke up this morning with a monster on my nose! I was careful not to mention it to my wife because she doesn’t need too much inducement right now to lay a baseball bat across my nose, and swatting a ladybug would be as good an excuse as any. This spring has produced more ladybugs than any year I can remember. Maybe it was the warm weather or the recent rain. They are not a major problem. In fact, they are kind of cute. The problem is that there are just too darn many of them. I have seen schools (flocks? herds?) of them climbing the walls, covering the screens on the doors, on the floor and on the furniture. I saw a couple of them on my cat the other day. My cat didn’t mind. Maybe he thought they were his pets. I even found a few of them in my head the other morning. I think they came out smelling better after an application of Head and Shoulders shampoo. I know they are ladybugs because they have spots on their back. I also found out that they are really called lady beetles. Since the
