A Swarm of Good Luck?

Dear God. Anyone else getting a bit freaked out by the Asian Ladybug assault? At first, of course, you think it's sweet; an abundance of good luck. That is until they're flying into your mouth, sticking to your clothes and crawling through your hair. Then it's downright apocalyptic and scary. I imagined what I must've looked like yesterday afternoon, swatting the air around me like a panicked drunk, fleeing an area swarmed with Ladybugs. Yeah, a real pussy. Glad I'm not the only one, though. Here's a lovely synopsis from the AP. Love the ode to Hitchcock...no joke.

The ladybugs aren't venomous but at times bite humans, leaving a red mark as they test a person's fitness as a possible meal. And "people don't like them because they smell bad," the result of their stinky ability to reflexively bleed to ward off birds and other predators, Nixon said.

Some accounts of recent infestations resemble something out of an Alfred Hitchcock film.

-B