Official: ladybirds are the new squirrels

Ladybirds: cute, right? Wrong. They are pests. And a threat to our national sovereignty too.

I have a ladybird infestation at home. I didn't think that ladybirds infested. I thought they were rare, delicate things, like butteflies. Christ, they named a series of children's books after them. That's how innocent they were. You don't get 'cockroach classics' about Peter and Jane, do you?

But a quick Google search reveals that I don't have the charming good-luck-to-touch indigenous British ladybirds swarming over my window sills. I have the pernicious Harlequin Ladybird. Over sexed, over-sized and over here.

It's red squirrels/grey squirrels all over again.

Comments

[100 Words]

Perhaps this is a problem specific to a certain quarter of north London.

On the last sunny day of 2007, our back wall was covered in them. Must have been 500 of the bastards, creepin, crawlin, and generally making a nuisance of themselves.

I, for one, am very afraid.

[rivergirlie]

i'm told they bite. so wotchit

[Jon Dennis]

We're in Crystal Palace (SE19), and have the same problem. They are vermin and must be destroyed