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Some friends and I did a few days in the Sespe Wilderness last weekend and it semmed like the Ladybugs were comming out everywhere we camped.
"On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude."
-- Lionel Terray
Back in the 90's I was on a 4 day trip in the sespe and the lady bugs where so thick that they crawled all over us as we hiked. At first it was kind of magical but then some started biting! I never knew they would bite. Then they just became very annoying. Must be a breeding area or something.
RooPhillip wrote:
Ladybugs bite? Really? That's a new one to me...
I've never had one bite me but I have heard of it before. Huel Howser did an episode where he went with a guy to catch lady bugs as they were going into hibernation. I thought it was really interesting.
"On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude."
-- Lionel Terray