Bluebottle

It wouldn't have lasted two days here.

I have to ask Sacha, how do you know they were young ladybirds, please?

If it's something to do with the number of spots I shall slink away with embarrassment at not knowing that at my age.

Well.......they seemed smaller and also darker than bright red. They looked like a newly hatched swarm.....but I could be wrong. Loved your LB smiley. 

I'd have swotted it the moment it turned up, can't stand the thought of where they've been added to the fact that the cats chase them all over the house including hanging on the curtain plus they eat them when they catch them, yuck!

When we first moved in this house, the front bedroom was used as a storage space until we got ourselves organised. I left the top quarter light window open for ventilation and rarely went in there - those boxes looked accusingly at me so I tried to avoid it. I went in there one night looking for a book in one of the boxes and there were about half a dozen flies lethargically buzzing about. They were shiny, wet looking. Out of the corner of my eye I saw moment and there, near the open window was an undulating black mass of newly hatched flies.
No, I did not panic, though I was horrified. I got the vacuum cleaner and sucked them all up!

I think you are going to be there for a while Nellie.