# ATTN: Ladybugs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621 "2008-10-12T20:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621/21 "2008-10-13T13:47:30Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Ladybugs are NOTHING compared to the huge cockroaches we have here in Texas. I understand that Florida also has these bugs, as well as crabs that occasionally go walkabout. I quit hanging my laundry out to dry on the day when I brought my clothes in, along with a roach that was a good three inches long. My dear, cockroaches are for poor, lower class people. What we here in Florida have are Palmetto Bugs. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621/22 "2008-10-13T17:43:06Z")
I submit that being really, really sleep-deprived at night and having a white moth flutter out of the darkness at your window is _the_ worst bug experience ever. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621/23 "2008-10-13T17:47:35Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > I submit that being really, really sleep-deprived at night and having a white moth flutter out of the darkness at your window is _the_ worst bug experience ever. You’ve obviously have never been woken up by the aforementioned Palmetto bug crawling on your cheek. ---
**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621/24 "2008-10-13T20:54:20Z")
Ladybugs do smell, but last year’s invasion provided hours of entertainment for my offspring. Entertained offspring = happy mama. You know what stinks worse than an irritated ladybug? Stinkbugs. That’s what we’re being invaded with this week. I smelled my first one last night. Either that or someone hid rotting cabbage mixed with dead mouse guts in the pocket of my pocket door. I’ll take the ladybugs. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621/25 "2008-10-13T21:10:35Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > Yesterday, I was sitting here at my computer. . . My SIL’s computer started on fire because ladybugs nested in it!!! Evidently they like the warmth. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621/26 "2008-10-13T22:30:29Z")
I had to stop using a torche style lamp, because the lady bugs all fried in it. They cooked and the smell is not as bad as smashed ones, but I did have smoke coming out of the lamp. They are a fire hazard in the fall when they swarm. I had to remove some vinyl siding to repair damage from the flood. I had thousands of dead ladybug husks drop out from behind the siding. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621/27 "2008-10-14T08:07:16Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > My dear, cockroaches are for poor, lower class people. What we here in Florida have are Palmetto Bugs. I calls 'em as I sees 'em. I always laugh when people call them palmetto bugs, because they’re huge and scary by any name. One time I got a HUGE plastic roach and kept putting it various places around the shop. It’s a wonder my boss didn’t kill me, because she just about had a heart attack every time she saw that thing peeking out at her from inside the cash register, or lurking in the bathroom, or…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621/28 "2008-10-14T08:32:44Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I had to stop using a torche style lamp, because the lady bugs all fried in it. They cooked and the smell is not as bad as smashed ones, but I did have smoke coming out of the lamp. They are a fire hazard in the fall when they swarm. I entered this thread to warn the OP that the ladybugs will burn her house down. Tongue in cheek, but how little did I know! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/attn-ladybugs/467621.md?page=1)