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I noticed that with it getting a bit warmer we are starting to get a few more ladybugs. Anyone else having this problem? I hope it is nothing like we had in the fall..

We have them too, also maple bugs. There all left overs from fall. There was a mass of them both last fall.

All basically from the Ladybug family but different. I had about 150 in the house late fall. Massive nest in the wall.

If you have only 150 bugs you’re in paradise.  
 
Our house has been polluted with them. In the fall the entire side of our house was orange. We have pressure washed the outside. We scooped and burned them. We keep central vacuum hose handy. Several times a day we suck up 75 to 100 off each window.  
 
I open the windows and clean bugs out weekly. I have no idea where they’re coming from. They don’t seem to be a hazard apart from the creep factor. I only dread how much worse they are going to be this coming year.

had the brilliant idea to bring these new things to Canada? They are a nuisance!

I got lucky. I found the mother ship very early on, a nest in the south wall. Sprayed the whole area with insect killer.  
 
None of this gentle relocation crap.  
 
Let's see what happens in a month.

TheScotsman said "I got lucky. I found the mother ship very early on, a nest in the south wall. Sprayed the whole area with insect killer.     None of this gentle relocation crap.     Let's see what happens in a month. "

You discover the neat in your wall? I have had a few I. Windows already and wonder if there is a nest somewhere also. I don’t know how to look or what to look for?

i bought some spray from poulins works great

I too have found lady bugs and maple bugs again. No idea where they are coming from. So annoying! There is still a massive snow dump on the ground.

We use to get polluted every year with the beetles and cluster flies and they would last all winter in the house every time we had a warm spell drove us crazy were vacuuming up hundreds every single day all winter long till summer came. Then we started to spray around the outsides of all the windows and doors and under the eves of the house right around the end of September depending on the year but before they start to show up or right as they start congregating on the outsides of your homes and we haven't had hardly any inside the house ever since we started spraying but there is always piles of dead one on the ground around the outside of the house. The spray we use has a two week residual so the one year i sprayed twice because of the warm fall that we had had, but we will continue to spray every fall from now on. We also found once we started to spray the house it solved the problem of constantly having the sweep off spider webs all summer long both outside the house and in. The spray we use is called Pounce(i think) we use to get it from Poulin's but found it at our local Ag center for a tenth of the price Poulin's was charging