Loads of ladybirds about

[wayward bob]

We've had a cluster at the end of our drive for about a week now. There's loads and they don't seem to move. I think they're plotting something.

i have visions of them organising to send you secret messages

something along these lines only more sinister

 

[marty21]

You're quite near me, maybe it's just here.

Ladybird Plagues are a bit creepy

I saw a plague of ladybirds at Cliveden a few years ago, there were millions of them and their spots

 

[wayward bob]

like this marty?

 

[Voley]

I'd quite like a room like that.

 

[TitanSound]

i'd bin the sock. squashed slug never washes out of anything

But then the other sock will be lonely without it's mate

 

[TitanSound]

I'd quite like a room like that.

Easy! Take acid and enjoy the ride.

 

[seeformiles]

Really pleased that they're about this early! Found one of these inside yesterday on my Chilli plant:

Also seen a few two and four spots but thankfully none of those interloping Harlequins (too far up North):

^^ "Interloper!" ^^

 

[wayward bob]

Easy! Take acid and enjoy the ride.

the artist has had hallucinations since she was a kid. she does a whole load of that kind of thing.

 

[seeformiles]

like this marty?

LIke Mr Blobby with the clap...

 

[TitanSound]

the artist has had hallucinations since she was a kid. she does a whole load of that kind of thing.

What were her parents putting into her Ready Brek?

 

[wayward bob]

she's proper mental (coming from me not a term of abuse ) lives in an asylum voluntarily nowadays.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Some have moved on this morning. Not quite a plague, but a bit odd none the less

 

[wayward bob]

looks like "kill the pope" to me

 

[gentlegreen]

Perhaps this year they'll have a good enough head start to stop my hop turning into lace almost as soon as it's covered the wall ...

 

[lizzieloo]

Perhaps this year they'll have a good enough head start to stop my hop turning into lace almost as soon as it's covered the wall ...

Oooo that's good to know, I've always wanted a golden hop, the aphids like it then?

 

[marty21]

like this marty?

uncanny!

 

[marty21]

I noticed a few over the winter in my flat - they seem to be nesting somewhere

 

[gentlegreen]

Oooo that's good to know, I've always wanted a golden hop, the aphids like it then?

Not just aphids, shed loads of caterpillars too - thinking about it though, perhaps ladybirds don't eat those - even though they're teeny ...

 

[lizzieloo]

Not just aphids, shed loads of caterpillars too - thinking about it though, perhaps ladybirds don't eat those - even though they're teeny ...

That's what I was thinking, probably caterpillars. You need blackbirds and robins and that.

 

[gentlegreen]

I'll have to make sure I hang up some fat balls to encourage the birds ... the sparrows have a half-hearted go in late summer ... just need to get them in earlier.

 

[moonsi til]

I have them in my flat for about a month or so. I don't have any carpets...don't know if that's a factor but right now there will be at least 4 in my lounge...I can see one on the windowsill.

 

[kittyP]

Slugs in my garden. Was out having a spliff last night and I stepped on one on the decking. I had a sock on but blurrrrrrrrrrggggh did I feel the squelch and wet ickyness.

In your garden.
Your lucky.
We have them most nights all over the kitchen floor.
Mostly tiny but the occasional big fucker.
We are a basment flat but I cannot work out how they get in and out.

They actually don't bother me but house-mate had once in the past been found with a pot of salt in a kinda 'ready to pounce' pose for hours late at night

There must be nothing in here for them to eat that they can get at and they always disappear just before dawn

 

[5t3IIa]

Not seen one Something (else?) is eating my daffs though!

 

[lizzieloo]

Not seen one Something (else?) is eating my daffs though!

Could be earwigs, they like flowers.

 

[5t3IIa]

Could be earwigs, they like flowers.

Earwigs? Leave it out. It's something with a big face - its destroyed the leaves before the flowers even came out!

Dont make me take a pic I'll take a pic brb

 

[5t3IIa]

Ooh, and something purple!

 

[wayward bob]

i may be totally wrong but that doesn't look like them being eaten to me - cos it's just the ends and they don't look munched, just split and raggedy. looks more like something fungal/nutrition related we often get twisty leaves on our apple tree from them getting munched by aphids while they're still unfurling but that doesn't look the same to me.

/not a gardening expert!

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[tony.c]

Lots of ladybirds flying around and on my windows today, after not seeing many this year.

 

[bcuster]

They seem to be moving indoors in large numbers