Influx of Ladybirds arrived at South Worcestershire and York, UK

We have read such articles but we have experienced the complete opposite. We have noticed the absence of any ladybirds this year.

Funnily enough we had lots of ladybirds this year - they were on virtually every plant in the garden.  Many were ending up as food for the spiders that had webs along the window ledge of the conservatory.  Before this year, we hardly had any to speak of.

Why have they started showing up now?  - sorry I haven't read any articles on this so it is all complete news to me.  Can they be coming in from somewhere else?.

Hi Blackbird - nothing unusual here in Shrewsbur - did see one rather sleepy one the other day in my sitting room so carried it out to a flower.  Seems a strange time of year for such a report of sightings?

There must be odd pockets of them appearing around at the moment

Someone has mentioned said they had swarms of them in Cromer, Norfolk the first week in August this year, and there have been sighting of others too.

Not seen hardly any myself at Bedford so they must be hiding somewhere.{sad}

Will keep an eye out in the local Press

Regards

Kathy and Dave

Unknown said:

Funnily enough we had lots of ladybirds this year - they were on virtually every plant in the garden.  Many were ending up as food for the spiders that had webs along the window ledge of the conservatory.  Before this year, we hardly had any to speak of.

Why have they started showing up now?  - sorry I haven't read any articles on this so it is all complete news to me.  Can they be coming in from somewhere else?.

 

Brenda and Lucy

Where are they can someone redirect them over the UK and to us also. {sniff}

{sad face}

Regards

Kathy and Dave

Now you mention it, we hardly had any green/black fly this year so there wouldn't have been much for any ladybird to eat. .

Unknown said:

Now you mention it, we hardly had any green/black fly this year so there wouldn't have been much for any ladybird to eat. .

Hi Brenda H

Now that's where we differ - this year we had greenfly all across our two Buddleias and climbing rose and blackfly literally covered our cosmo so perhaps that's why we had so many this year.  We have tho had green and blackfly in other years but no ladybirds barring the odd one or two.  In our part of the country we didn't have as much rain as many of you had during the summer, in fact up until the middle of August we hadn't had much at all - whether or not this made a difference I am not sure.  We did have an awfully wet winter, in fact flooding in areas which normally hadn''t received much rain in past years.

We did have wet winter and summer, but not as bad as some parts and no flooding. I don't  remember having many ladybirds for a few years but I do know that my sister in Cheshire described last year as being invaded by them.

Quite the opposite where I live! Absolutely thousands of mayflies and greenflies in the spring and this was followed up by many ladybird larvae and eventually, ladybirds obviously! No swarms as such, but plenty about!! Saw quite a few ladybirds (50ish) all flying around a pine type tree the other day... I assumed they were going for the resin/sap?