On Jul 6, 6:15*pm, RicodJour wrote:
On Jul 6, 2:26*pm, hibb wrote:

My air conditioning went out this weekend on the hottest day of the
year so far. When the Tech checked out the problem, he found that one
of those damned lady bugs (that are not really lady bugs) that infest
this area every fall got into one of the contacts and shorted it out.
I guess they don't conduct electricity very well.

Cost me $77 for the service call but still cheaper and quicker to get
it running than I figured it would be.

Tell me more about these not-quite-a-ladybug-bugs. *A friend is
innundated with lady bugs. *I'd never seen so many in one place. *Are
these some sort of newly-introduced to the US bugs?

R

I heard they were imported into Canada to eat other bugs on soybean
plants or some such thing. I am in lower Michigan and I went out to
the corn field out back of my property last year and got caught in a
swarm of them things so bad I could hardly breath without sucking a
bunch up my nose. We've been getting them bad every fall for the last
10 years.

The ones we have here bite and if you smash one them it stinks. My
wife says since they are not lady bugs and the bite and stink, then
they must be slut-bugs.