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One woman has claimed she was forced to leave her own home after it was invaded by thousands of ladybirds.
Margaret Yescombe, 42, from Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, woke up one morning to find a plague of ladybirds had entered her home. She claimed that there were so many of them that she felt forced to abandon her home until they left. Margaret found them congregating on her bedroom window, and finding their way inside. She left her home around 3pm due to the insects but when she returned just two hours later, she was relieved to find that the insects had departed.
Margaret Yescombe, 42, lives in Ickleton, Cambridgeshire (Margaret Yescombe / SWNS)
The ladybugs forced their way into her home Margaret said (Margaret Yescombe / SWNS)She 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."
Margaret described the experience as unsettling, saying, "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."
Margaret said she thinks the ladybugs come from a nearby farm (Margaret Yescombe / SWNS)This is not the first time Margaret's home has been targeted by these insects. A similar incident occurred in 2016, and Margaret suspects the ladybirds originate from nearby farmland. She explained: "There's my house, a hedge, a road, another hedge and then farmland."
Margaret, a resident who is not typically bothered by insects, expressed her discomfort with the ladybirds. She stated: "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." Despite having lived comfortably around bugs in the past, she finds ladybirds more intrusive than even poisonous false widow spiders.
Margaret said there were thousands of ladybirds in her home (Margaret Yescombe / SWNS.com)She explained: "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 year 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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