Buying ladybugs via the internet?

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Sylvie said:
I had tens of thousands of ladybugs on my house and in it. They bite when they land on me as I walk outside the door. Nasty bugs. There are so many I can't help but step on them and swat them when they land and bite and then they stink!
I think they are Asian ladybugs that the Dept of Natural Resources dropped to feed the Wild turkeys they reintroduced to the area.
In the winter I find piles of dead ones in dark corners and between the windows and storm windows and in boxes of books that are stored.
The mass infestation has happened several years in a row, usually in October during a warm stretch.
My guess is that our native ladybugs aren't so invasive.
I have dealt w/"those" types of ladybugs as well. When I was in college, they would just be all over our dorm room. There would be so many on our screens that it practically blocked out the sun! And they had that weird "ladybug" smell :p
 
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