Missing Wooly Bears

[Pinot's Mom]

Haven't seen many woolly bears - a few camping this past trip, none at home...NOW on to the LADYBUGS!!!
Every year we have a simultaneous hatching of the ***** things! One warm "Indian Summer" day, as we go into fall, we'll be greeted at the front of the house by THOUSANDS of them, inside and outside. This was last evening. There are several dozen inside, and the rest sunning themselves in the late afternoon sun full force on the front of the house. One year they literally covered the whole front of the house so badly I got back in my car and drove to Home Depot to get spray, just so I could get in the front door. It was before we had Pinot; I subsequently found they had covered the windows on the back of the house(inside); I got a bug bomb and killed them. Bad luck be damned....they're a pain in the butt and they STAIN!
Sorry, Ellie, didn't mean to steal the woolly bear thread, but a BIG NERVE was tweaked!

[Trinityagain]

I rescued a wooly bear in my front yard a few weeks back, put him in the grass so he wouldn't get stepped on. His black front and back ends were fairly narrow and the middle was a nice brown....and I am near Pittsburgh....

And our building here at work is getting swarmed by the ladybugs right now!

[pomtzu]

I'm glad I'm not the only one plagued by ladybugs. I hate the miserable things when they swarm by the hundreds - and yes - thousands. We had a terrible infestation a couple of years ago. I just walked out the back door, and they're starting to dissipate now that the sun is starting to get low. They'll be back tomorrow I'm sure, since it's going to be warm again.