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Has anyone else having a ladybird invasion.. I've got hundreds of them all over the house and in the house. York
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes, and they come here to hibernate every year. Pile themselves up in a dark corner above a cupboard - and once they're spotted go up the hoover. When we first moved here I opened a set of double doors leading to the garden only to find thousands of them jammed into the hinge side of one of the doors. I can't understand why they keep coming back. As far as I know they only live for about a year. Could it be a kind if 'homing' instinct that's passed on from generation to generation?
I've not seen any around here (in Suffolk) lately.
I recall, about 30 years ago, being in Hunstanton with my father when the skies completely darkened as vast numbers of them arrived on the seafront. It was impossible to avoid standing on them because there were several thousand on every single paving slab, across the full width of the promenade, for about a quarter of a mile in length. It was an amazing site, which reminded me of videos I've seen of swarms of locusts arriving in farmers' fields overseas.
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I recall, about 30 years ago, being in Hunstanton with my father when the skies completely darkened as vast numbers of them arrived on the seafront.
My sister lives in Hunstanton, Chris, and remembers that occasion very well. I think it was in either 1994 or 95, soon after she moved there. Apparently people were shovelling them up out of their greenhouses and sheds. She did a bit of research and the phenomenon is quite common in Norfolk, especially near the coast. It seems the long hot summer of 1976 was the worst year but there was a similar invasion in 2009. It is said that prolonged hot weather increases the chances but there was not an unusually high number last year, when the summer was indeed long and hot.
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