{"id":99823,"date":"2023-10-09T19:27:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T19:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/?p=99823"},"modified":"2023-10-09T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T19:27:36","slug":"woman-forced-to-flee-after-huge-swarm-of-ladybirds-lay-siege-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritycovernews.com\/world-news\/woman-forced-to-flee-after-huge-swarm-of-ladybirds-lay-siege-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman forced to flee after huge swarm of ladybirds lay siege to home"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman said she was forced out of her home by a swarm of ladybirds laying siege to her house.<\/p>\n
Margaret Yescombe, 42, from Ickleton, in Cambridgeshire, woke up on Saturday morning to find that ‘thousands’ of the insects had forced their way in.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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Margaret Yescombe, 42, from Ickleton, in Cambridgeshire (pictured) said she was forced out of her home<\/p>\n
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This is the second time Margaret’s home has been besieged by the creepy crawlies<\/p>\n
Margaret who is an artist, said: ‘I got up in the morning and I saw them on the window.<\/p>\n
‘I was pretty annoyed because I had to get my cat inside and they swarmed on me.<\/p>\n
‘There were thousands, maybe even tens of thousands.<\/p>\n
‘They come in and they all crawl up into a corner and huddle there. They make a smell when they do that.<\/p>\n
‘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.<\/p>\n
‘You just notice an itch and find another one somewhere.’<\/p>\n
This is the second time Margaret’s home has been besieged by the creepy crawlies.<\/p>\n
The same thing happened in 2016 and Margaret believes the ladybirds come from a nearby farmland.<\/p>\n
Margaret said: ‘There’s my house, a hedge, a road, another hedge and then farmland.<\/p>\n
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Margaret is not squeamish around insects and has lived comfortably around them in the past<\/p>\n
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The artists thinks that\u00a0ladybirds are worse than poisonous false widow spiders as they have no fear and will comfortably land on people<\/p>\n
‘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.’<\/p>\n
Margaret is not squeamish around insects and has lived comfortably around them in the past.<\/p>\n
But she thinks that ladybirds are worse than poisonous false widow spiders as they have no fear and will comfortably land on people.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
‘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.<\/p>\n
‘Most bugs run away but ladybirds will just land on you. They have no concept of personal space. They just don’t care.<\/p>\n
‘Last year I knocked them off the wall but now if I see them swarming they get sprayed.’<\/p>\n