• pedz@lemmy.ca
    3·
    1 day ago

    My parents live in a rural area and they have hundreds of multicoloured Asian lady beetles crawling in their windows and in the house.

    I have a cabin in the same region and the inside of the walls are filled with their corpses. They agglutinate by thousands in fire wood and I burn so many. They are everywhere and kind of annoying.

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
    30·
    2 days ago

    Nah, no lady bugs or whatever the Japanese beetle that has replaced them in the US is called in my home.

    Lived in TN for since 09, and when those things find a way in it’s awful. They have crawled into my ears while sleeping (they bite, did you know? I didn’t. Ow.), they have eaten through window screens, chewed a hole in the drywall, and done general havoc. There was a mostly unused room where I found about 1000 or more of then hanging in a corner. The mass was so large I genuinely thought it was some kind of hornets nest or something.

    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      2 days ago

      Harmonia axyridis AKA “Asian Beetle”. Native to Southeast Asia. Artificially introduced to the US for aphid population control, which they allegedly do very well.

      And that is their single redeeming quality. Other than that, they are an incredibly annoying pest. I remember being a kid, when they really started to take off in the Midwest, and having to vacuum up thousands of them out of, well, everywhere. I quickly learned that if you used a vacuum cleaner where the dirt gets drawn through the impeller, they would die instantly and that would lessen the awful smell.

      We had this antique Hamilton Beach hand vacuum with a large bag on it that was perfect for the job. The distinctive “ping” sound of those little bastards getting obliterated by the cast aluminum death machine was sweet revenge.

  • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
    30·
    2 days ago

    I have a team of geckos keeping the bugs down in my place. I love their happy chirps.

    • cm0002@lemy.lolOP
      11·
      2 days ago

      My web search told me they die quickly indoors apparently, so no team of dragonflies protecting me from the bad bugs, sadness :'(

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    2 days ago

    We live near a small lake and the amount of milipedes and pill bugs that come in and just die is crazy. Cleaned up hundreds of bodies.

    • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Them and millipedes are allowed if AND ONLY IF they stay either out of sight or up in the corners. If they crawl across my bare foot they’re done.

      I went away for two weeks once, and afterwards went to the unfinished portion of my basement at the time to find the aftermath of an absolute warzone. Some yellowjackets (I think) had burrowed their nest through the wall, and there was an epic battle between them and the cave crickets (of which there were WAY more than I had thought). There were dismembered corpses absolutely covering the floors. And from what I could tell, you know who seemed to be the victor?

      The millipedes. There was ONE millipede body amongs the masses of cave crickets and yellowjackets. And each of the others weren’t eaten, just ripped in half.

      For the next year, we didn’t hear or see a single cave cricket, and that entire nest of yellowjackets was just… gone. But the millipedes… they flourished.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 days ago

      I LOVE house centipedes! They can take all their million legs and crawl all over my house. I’ll even save them from my cats, as I don’t want the lil guys getting hurt! My cats can play with all the ants they want, but centipedes are too leg’d for me not to love.

      We do occasionally get venomous centipedes tho, those I do have to kill if they’re in my house. Sorry lil dudes. I’ve only found one in my decade at this place tho, the rest were friends!