My dear, cockroaches are for poor, lower class people. What we here in Florida have are Palmetto Bugs.
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.
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.
My SIL’s computer started on fire because ladybugs nested in it!!! Evidently they like the warmth.
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.
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…
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!