Woman forced to flee after huge swarm of ladybirds lay siege to home

Woman is forced to flee after huge swarm of ‘tens of thousands’ of ladybirds laid siege to her home

• Artist Margaret Yescombe said the ladybirds were worse than poisonous spiders 

A woman said she was forced out of her home by a swarm of ladybirds laying siege to her house.

Margaret Yescombe, 42, from Ickleton, in Cambridgeshire, woke up on Saturday morning to find that ‘thousands’ of the insects had forced their way in.

She found them collecting on her bedroom window and the swarm was so large and the insects so bold that she was forced to flee her home until they left.

The 42-year-old left around 3pm in the afternoon and returned at 5pm at which time, thankfully, the insects had left by the time she returned.

Margaret Yescombe, 42, from Ickleton, in Cambridgeshire (pictured) said she was forced out of her home

This is the second time Margaret’s home has been besieged by the creepy crawlies

Margaret who is an artist, said: ‘I got up in the morning and I saw them on the window.

‘I was pretty annoyed because I had to get my cat inside and they swarmed on me.

‘There were thousands, maybe even tens of thousands.

‘They come in and they all crawl up into a corner and huddle there. They make a smell when they do that.

‘They’re so creepy. You don’t feel when they land on you so you only notice they’re there when you feel them crawling on you.

‘You just notice an itch and find another one somewhere.’

This is the second time Margaret’s home has been besieged by the creepy crawlies.

The same thing happened in 2016 and Margaret believes the ladybirds come from a nearby farmland.

Margaret said: ‘There’s my house, a hedge, a road, another hedge and then farmland.

Margaret is not squeamish around insects and has lived comfortably around them in the past

The artists thinks that ladybirds are worse than poisonous false widow spiders as they have no fear and will comfortably land on people

‘I suppose they want to shelter because there’s no shade in the fields and my house is the first one they come across. They always seem to come from there.’

Margaret is not squeamish around insects and has lived comfortably around them in the past.

But she thinks that ladybirds are worse than poisonous false widow spiders as they have no fear and will comfortably land on people.

She said: ‘I live in the country and I’m around bugs a lot. I had a false widow near my toilet for ages. It has a pretty nasty bite, but it kept to itself.

‘I felt a tickle in my ear last night and I was scared that a ladybird had got in there. There was a woman who had one for years.

‘Most bugs run away but ladybirds will just land on you. They have no concept of personal space. They just don’t care.

‘Last year I knocked them off the wall but now if I see them swarming they get sprayed.’

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