Halloween candy. Leaves changing. Cooler temperatures. Holidays around the corner.
And one thing I don't look forward to.
Ladybugs galore. Inside my house.
Near the lights in the den...
On the door trim...
In the kitchen...
Another one in the kitchen...
And this is the morning after I went on a giant sucking safari. This is the one time of the year that my vacuum cleaner gets used several times a day. Lucky Charms still litter my floors, but, hey, at least the ceilings remain ladybug free for a few minutes at a time.
What is up with all the ladybugs each year?
And to not suck them up with the vacuum cleaner is not an option. Because then we find ladybug carcasses on the carpet and on the furniture, or stuck to our socks.
And, at supper time, their bodies ping when they land on the light hanging over the kitchen table. Which makes us gag just a little bit as we swallow our roast beef.
The Egyptians and their plagues of frogs, gnats, flies and locusts? Yeah, I'm feeling their pain. Maybe just a little bit.
Normally, I like ladybugs. They're cute and harmless. And you can safely bet they're the only bug I'll let crawl anywhere on my body without convulsing into a squirming dance accompanied by the high-pitch song that includes the words: "Get it off! Where is it? Is it gone?"
But like a contest in which you shove countless marshmallows into your cheeks to see who can fit the most in, ladybugs in the fall in East Tennessee simply prove the truth that you can have too much of a good thing.
Hoovers, unite!!
3 comments:
We have ladybugs in our bathroom...Strange...They always come in this time of year....Not a fan of them either.
Never have seen a ladybug in my home...any of them...excpept for Rylee last weekend. ;) How odd...what I do see all the time in our basement is rollie pollies...ick!
We also have them...but then we don't mind them as much because we have four lady bug removal systems (aka the cats). There's nothing they love more than tracking lady bugs across the window screens, or leaping in the air to smack them as they fly around the lights. And woe to the lady bug who gets too close to those sneaky paws! The cats think they are great fun, the lady bug population is kept under control, and I figure a little extra protein in their diets never hurt anyone.
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