Ladybirds (by alaric)
Sitting at my desk working, I found a spider in my hair. So I went and opened the window to put it out.
This is, the big office window's not been opened for a while. As I opened it, lots of stuff rained down on me. And when I looked I realised I was covered in ladybirds.
Seems they're attempting to hibernate in the gap between the window and the frame - except now they're all disturbed. So I shook them off of me, and left them to collect together so I can decide what to do with them.
I took some pictures as they started forming good clusters:
But there's plenty more than that still making their way into the clusters... and I opened the other side of the window as they were crawling into the gap from the inside (and I don't want them inside), which caused a whole load more to shower down.
Wish me luck.
Animals, Building Maintenance, Gardening | alaric | 
Mon 12th Oct 2009 11:44 am
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By alaric, Mon 12th Oct 2009 @ 12:30 pm
With both doors open they've started to disperse now, but they are trying to huddle together in a few shadow-sheltered parts, so I need to shift the doors about to usher them out and away!
Plenty of old trees for them to winter in outside 😉
By Ulrike, Mon 12th Oct 2009 @ 2:13 pm
see, if you had just KILLED the spider like I would have done, then you would not have disturbed the pretty ladybirds and would have saved 50 beetle lives who are now going to die come winter. You put a spiders life before theirs! Shame on you. Let this be a lesson to you, and kill spiders henceforth. :->