Are Ladybirds thick or lazy ?

[Dorothy rouse]

I remember that too...I was very, very young! We collected them from the trees.Sure they bit us?!

Don't think I was ever bitten but I remember clouds of them,and them covering car windscreen, was horrible.

[Martin H]

I remember that too...I was very, very young! We collected them from the trees.Sure they bit us?!

When my daughter was about 5 and at the seaside, a huge swarm of ladybirds descended on the beach. She's 27 now but still goes into a panic at the sight of ladybirds, poor thing.

[Dorothy rouse]

Ohhh,poor thing,how horrid.

[WendyC]

There was a ladybird invasion on the Norfolk coast a few years ago. Cycling through them was hideous (keep mouth shut at all times) and I remember Cromer shopkeepers sweeping them out of their shops.

[Dorothy rouse]

There was a ladybird invasion on the Norfolk coast a few years ago. Cycling through them was hideous (keep mouth shut at all times) and I remember Cromer shopkeepers sweeping them out of their shops.

I was living in Norfolk then, early 1980's, but it might have happened again after that.

[Bill HH]

There was a ladybird invasion on the Norfolk coast a few years ago. Cycling through them was hideous (keep mouth shut at all times) and I remember Cromer shopkeepers sweeping them out of their shops.

I bet the greenfly kept their heads down.

[Two_Sheds]

Seen quite a few Ladybirds of late...But they don't seem very active.

I usually pick them up and pop them on a rose leaf with aphids.

They may be cold, or their minds might be on mating rather than eating. Putting them on certain plants isn't a solution, because they will fly off. Moving the larvae is different: no wings see.