Zulus. Thousands of them.

[DonkeyApple]

When I say Zulu’s, Inof course men ladybirds and when I say thousands, I mean tens.

Today is obviously moving day for them and they’ve all arrived in the boot room and started clustering in the corner of the windows.

It’s also the day of the dead in the upstairs of the barn as the usual thousands of newly hatched flies have done the honourable thing and hoovered up the incecticide, gone break dancing and keeled over. Jammed up the spare hoover though!

[Bill]

Do they do the whole horns of the buffalo thing?

[DonkeyApple]

Bill said:

Do they do the whole horns of the buffalo thing?

It seems to be more of a huddle of gossiping women. Which is clearly more threatening.

[StanleyT]

I found one in my Engineering Managers beard just after lunch (well swatted it as it came out). About an hour later pretty much every panel in our building had ladybirds inside and out (no open window vents - they must have either come in via HVAC or Denny's beard).

There is a good description in Wainright's Outlying Fells of Lakeland about the "annual ladybird day" I suspect it is rarer with increased urbanisation than it was int he late 1960s/70s but is bob on about the right time o'year.

[Bill]

DonkeyApple said:

It seems to be more of a huddle of gossiping women. Which is clearly more threatening.

Christ!

[DonkeyApple]

StanleyT said:

There is a good description in Wainright's Outlying Fells of Lakeland about the "annual ladybird day" I suspect it is rarer with increased urbanisation than it was int he late 1960s/70s but is bob on about the right time o'year.

Very interesting. Thanks. We used to get the same in London. They would appear one day in Autumn and cluster in the corner of the patio doors for Winter.

[wolfracesonic]

Death waits you! You have made a covenant with death, and with Hell you are in agreement. You're all going to die! Don't you realize? Can't you see? You're all going to die! Die! Death awaits you all! Or wait a couple of days and they should all be gone.

[DonkeyApple]

Dear sweet Jesus. I just googled ‘ladybird swarm’ and was smacked with numerous tabloid articles about immigrant ladybirds carrying STDs and defiling our fine, upstanding British ladybirds!!!