On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:11:43 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-07-30 2:55 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 11:17:27 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> NSian ones are kinder, gentler types. If there are many in one go I
>>>> take a piece of paper, sweep them on to it with my hands or if one or
>>>> two, just pick them up. Never been bitten.
>>>
>>> I don't think I have ever been bitten by a native lady bug. It was only
>>> after we were swarmed by the Asian variety that I started getting
>>> bitten. It wouldn't be so bad if they were not so effective at finding
>>> their way into houses.
>>
>> For some reason we don't seem to have ladybugs here, although they're
>> certainly on the mainland.
>
>Our native ladybugs are cute little critters and quite harmless. The
>Asian variety come in overwhelming numbers and they bite. I don't
>suppose there is any connection between them and Japanese Beetles. We
>never had them until maybe 10 years ago. The like to eat the leaves on
>certain plants and trees, like evening primrose, raspberries, rhubarb,
>birch and wisteria. It wouldn't be bad if the came in small numbers but
>when these guys appear they come in vast numbers. One year the showed
>up and started working on my wisteria. I sprayed it with Sevin and when
>I went back an hour later there were thousands of dead Japanese beetles
>dead or dying on my patio, and that was from just two plants on a trellis.
>
>
>
>> Can we change the subject from hamsters to
>> hipsters? I saw some again yesterday and we should really be doing
>> something about culling their numbers.
>>
>
>
>They seem to be internationally considered to be annoying.

LOL. Oh yes... they seem to be an especially useless subspecies of Gen
Y. As somebody with tattoos and a beard, I particularly resent their
adoption of those attributes and subsequent debasement of same.