What is going on? Im having a major lady bug invasion in my highrise??PLEASE HELP 10 POINTS MOST HELPFULL?

Question

OK iM NOT KIDDING IM TALKING MILLIONS LIETTERALLY?????? Here's the deal 11 story highrise, with 30 apartments per floor this morning anyone with opened windows woke up with their house full of 100's in some cases 1000's of ladybugs now. All the balconies are full all that could be seen is blankets of the bugs all over them and 1000's flying around the building Im the manager and people are comming home now and freaking WHAT IS GOING ON ? HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE AND WHAT DO I DO

I mean all the way up Ive had people complain from all ten floors and a company had to reschedual a sateilite installation on my roof and I mean everywhere every nook and crank every side and floor of the building

Answer 1

You need to seek help from a professional. The ladybugs are tying to hybernate in your apartments. They will not go away on their own.

Besides all of that, they stink. A few are cute, thousands of them stink! (They are a beettle and the resease scent) That scent they are releasing is also a scent to attract other ladybugs to the area, because they think they have found a safe spot for winter.


Your best best is a shop vac, and start vacuuming them up. No I'm not kidding about that.

There is also a pheremone, called Eau de Ladybug. You can use this to try and attract them to one spot...might not work, since you already have so many of them.

The ladybugs invading your apartment are probably not native. They are probably the Asian type, released to control insects on crops.

In some areas there are companies that will come in a vacuum them up for you, and resell them.

Not at all fun, wish I could be of more help. I would not want to be the apartment manager there! By the way, the stink they make may affect some humans who have asthma.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

P.S. You can vacuum them up (in a shop vac so they are not chewed to shreads) or sweep them up, put them in paper sacks, and give them away to gardners.

P.P.S. The ladybug is called the ladybug because of Mary, mother of Jesus (per what some people believe). The Lady is Mary. They believe Mary sent the Ladybugs to help them with infestations of bugs that were eating their crops. Because of this, many people have very strong reactions/feelings about ladybugs, and do NOT want a single one killed.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Is there a lot of heat in these places that the ladybugs are found? Ladybugs are attracted to hot heated areas, or hot flat dry areas with a lot of holes or gaps in the walls because this enables them to survive and breed in these areas, this is perhaps why there is so much.

In order to get rid of the ladybugs you could limit some factors such as turning down the heating during the day, and keeping it on at night, this is because at night ladybugs tend to thrive more in colder conditions, and are used to that sort of climate at night, not during the day. Keeping windows closed will trap the heat inside your house, which you may not want to do if you are trying to illiminate ladybugs.

I would say to call in some sort of bug environmentalist because although it seems like a small problem which can just be handled by exterminating the creatures, it may actually be that there is some sort of other factors which are causing the ladybugs to keep coming back. Maybe it's the scent of your house flowers, maybe it's because the place is suited for them to breed, or something which is going on in the community which attracts them. By doing this the problem will be solved more for yourself and others.

Ladybugs are attracted to weeds, if you harbour a lot of these in your garden then this may also be a factor which attracts them.

At the end of the day, once the problem is solved you can get back to life, and possibly admiring a select few of them as scenery species in your lovelly garden :]

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Answer 5

Okay, I have a few solutions for you.
1.HOTSHOT BUG STRIPS FROM LOWES
2. They say lemon scented candles have worked.
3. Lemon spray (cut lemon and boil it in water, and put in a spray bottle.)
4. You could try apple cider vinegar, it is said to repel many different kinds of bugs, just put it in a spray bottle (WARNING the stuff REEKS)
I recommend trying the one or all of the first three first, then going for the vinegar. Each method will take time, the lady said that the bug strips took a few days, but eventually killed them all off. The strips are supposed to stink too though.

Answer 6

You've been here for just under a year and you are Level 6(ish). Wow - I thought I spent alot of time here! You should keep it real - otherwise what is the point? If someone comes on here to have sunshine blown at them, too bad. If I ask a question then I hope for and expect honest opinions.

Answer 7

OK first check some things:
1)check color of apartment building(Attracted to light colors)
2)check old sealings around windows,doors balconies etc.

After fixing the doors, windows, a shop vacuum can be used to get rid of them easily.

Hope this helps!

Answer 8

simply explain to everyone that the lady bugs are moving because of winter weather and that they will all fly away. in the mean time take some good photo shots for all those people who love beautiful sights. people actually collect sights like that. my friends house got covered with manarchs and we took pictures. People pay for those kind of things.

Answer 9

Green houses buy them by the box fulls, to keep the avids off their plants , when the avids are gone, the ladybugs move on, and that is why you see them, thet're looking for food. Happens all over.

Answer 10

If the trees and bushes outside are infested with aphids--that could be your problem. Ladybugs love aphids. Call an exterminator to come out and check it out for you.