Where are the lady bugs?

Geo-TH,In · Sep 25, 2015

Where are the Asian lady bugs this year? In the past, after the beans are harvested the girls show up very angry. They swarm and want to bite. We've had a dry past two months, very little rain. So the harvest season is ahead of schedule. Many farmers have harvested the beans and corn. NO LADY BUSG, why? I haven't seen one bug.

gwece · Sep 25, 2015

Here in southern Illinois I don't think they generally show up till mid October. They are a real pain. Has anyone come up with a way to discourage them from attacking your house?

RayP(MI) · Sep 25, 2015

Now that you mention it, hsvenvt been seeing them so far this fall.

Have seen several Monarch buttreflies, seems late in the season. Keep telling them about thst nice sancuary in Mexico, but they just flutter away.

fixerupper · Sep 25, 2015

In my neck of the woods we don't have beetles if we don't have soybean aphids. A heavy aphid year means heavy beetles. This year some farms had aphids and some farms did not. My beans had very few if any but some others had enough aphids to warrant spraying. I have not seen beetles yet but we haven't combined any beans to eliminate their habitat.

MN Scott · Sep 25, 2015

Spray around the foundation and doors and windows with tempo SC bug spray. Works very well.

Deutz Lover · Sep 25, 2015

I am new to the forums and I am not familiar with the common jargon. When you say asian ladybugs are you referring to the carnivorous biocontrol beetles or the planting eating kind?

The reason I ask is as follows:
The true carnivorous ladybug can be attracted away from buildings by having a white or very light covered structure with a little heat. Vacuum as many as you can (try to minimize the suction and put something soft in the shop type vac.) and put them in a screened cage in this shelter (actually just some tented tin painted white?? and maybe a sheet of styrofoam insulation. They are attracted at a distance by light colored objects, heat prior to oncoming cold and each other (pheromones) .

Or paint your house olive drab. lol

In all seriousness too much insecticide can have a bad effect on their populations.

Heat Houser · Sep 25, 2015

Wait until a frost, they will be out in droves as they have nothing to eat except to try and chew on you.

ejr-IA. · Sep 25, 2015

I wish I could they showed up here this week thick and they still know how to bite.West central Ia.

Steve in VA · Sep 25, 2015

Along that line, I have almost no moths around central Virginia. Every prior year they would mob the out door lights at night but all summer there have been only a handful.

chuck from neb · Sep 25, 2015

Come to Nebraska they are thicker than flies here now

504 · Sep 25, 2015

I had one in the truck cab yesterday, and the moths have just about run me out of the shed this summer.

Where are the lady bugs?

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