[Babstreefern]

I came onto my patch today (not been on for a fortnight), and found all my sweetpeas had come down which I had growing against the greenhouse.  They had fallen over quite a few of my onions.  So anyway, I set to and pulled them up - they were dying off anyway, and when cleared, I started digging up the weeds between the onions, and the amount of ladybirds was beyond belief.  If there's one thing that has blossomed on my patch this year, its got to be them.  I've had a bumper harvest

I have to laugh, but I had a greenfly crawling up my arm, so I picked up a ladybird and put it on the greenfly, doing a David Attenborough, and the damn thing ignored it, I guess the ladybird had too much of them and was stuffed

[arugula]

Surprised it didn't bite you. 

[Babstreefern]

One thing about ladybirds, I've never ever been bitten by them.

[sunshineband]

They tend to bite more in very dry weather -- looking for a drink 

[Lady Rosemary]

They tend to bite more in very dry weather -- looking for a drink 

Ladybirds bite?    Wow, better keep my eyes wide open next time I'm down the plot.  Blood sucking vampire ladybirds .... I need every drop of blood I have.

[sunshineband]

That's how they gobble up those greenfly  --- with their huge jaws 

[Lady Rosemary]

That's how they gobble up those greenfly  --- with their huge jaws 

I'm going to have nightmares tonight now ... all I can envisage is the ladybird on James and the Giant Peach, but with humongous fangs! 

[A. Fallowfield]

Had to google the year, it was 1976 when we had a plague of ladybirds! It appears they bit people then looking for food as they'd eaten all the aphids!
I remember being bitten whilst on holiday in Withernsea, well, someone has to holiday there!

[teasmade!]

took family to the beach one year and on that day they had been harvesting the fields, and there were swarms of ladybirds as they had basically been kicked out of their home 

they definately bite!! there wouldn't just be one that landed on your leg but 20 or more, not a lie!! they landed on anything that stood still !!

left beach after 20mins!!  another year hover flies, that was worse even though they didn't bite!!

[Elcie]

I felt a bite on my leg last week and looked down to see what it was and it was a ladybird.  I have also noticed a large number of ladybirds this year, much more than usual.

[operabunny]

I was terrified of the ladybird swarms in 1976. I can remember being on a family picnic and having to run to the car and sit sweltering with the doors and windows closed until they moved on. That and the dried up lakes are my earliest clear memories as I was tiny!

[kermit]

We are just back from Brittany. There was a biblical infestation of ladybirds on the campsite. Never seen anything like it. Never regarded them as pests until then! Literally millions of them swarming. Weird.

[Nicki85]

I've seen loads of ladybirds this year to!  There seems to be loads everywhere.

[sunshineband]

I have had so few greenfly this year, all down to massive numbers of hoverflies and ladybirds I think 

[strangerachael]

Long may it continue  I'm a big fan of ladybirds, but then I've never been bitten by one...