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Yes, they invade my house over the winter - they get through the window fittings (gaps between frame and casing - need replacing but I'm only a tenant...) I hoover them up mercilessly, then wipe with vinegar or multi-surface cleaner where they have been clumping together to get rid of their scent and discourage them from accumulating there again. Now it's warm if you open your windows they should soon find their way outside again.
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Sue and ladyruskin - they are the "bad" invading Harlequin ladybirds - http://www.harlequin-survey.org/factfile/concern.htm I have come to hate them and they really stink when disturbed. Anyway, most of them have gone now as spring has come and they've decided it's warm enough to head outside again and maraud our native species, but next winter honestly if you want to come to my house each week and take them away you are very welcome.
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Killing things by hoovering them = cruel. A slow death by suffocation.

If you have to kill a thing just crush it quickly. For preference set it free outdoors instead.

The hibernators in your pic were 'harlequins'.


Picture gallery, FYI. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2013/jul/22/ladybird-species-harlequin-uk-insects


Invertebrates generally are an important layer of the food chain which humans have been damaging so it is worth doing the research.

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fl0wer Wrote:

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> If you have to kill a thing just crush it quickly.

> For preference set it free outdoors instead.


xxxxx


I think sanitygirl (I keep misreading that as sanitarygirl :)) ) didn't want to set them free outdoors because they are predators of "good" ladybirds?

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Sue Wrote:

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> fl0wer Wrote:

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> > If you have to kill a thing just crush it

> quickly.

> > For preference set it free outdoors instead.

>

> xxxxx

>

> I think sanitygirl (I keep misreading that as

> sanitarygirl :)) ) didn't want to set them free

> outdoors because they are predators of "good"

> ladybirds?



Sue, the lovechild of David Bellamy and UKIP!!

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