Trapping lady bugs
If I had found these new cracks
back in the summer I might have been able to block this year's lady bug
infestation.
The internet says the only
thing to do is vacuum them up, but I can't help but to think there
might be an easy, non-toxic way to lure and trap them for relocation to
a chicken coop.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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We had kudzu bugs bad this year in Georgia. I only every heard of them the year before when I first started seeing them. Yes they taste as bad as they smell, I would say talking when they are swarming around you is not recommended. The taste was something like how muscle rub smells and overly strong mints, I was exposed for almost no time before I started spitting. They group into places to hid for the winter, they like light/bright colors, but I have not found them in the shop/house.
As for lady bugs, red and orange, I find them grouped together around the windows on the inside of the shop. I live in the shop as well not exactly air tight to say the least, but like I said in two years no matter how bad the Kudzu bugs and some walls looked black outside this year, none inside.
When cleaning up, I collect the red and orange lady bugs and put them in a box which I store in a cool spot inside the shop. Come summertime I let them out in the garden. Some leave, some get eaten, some stay and give me a jump on my ladybug population.