Ladybug, Fly On Home

""What we've got here...is failure to communicate." Yes, that might sound familiar to you, but it neatly sums up the troubles I've been having with my tenants. Yes, I said MY tenants. Turns out said renters are 9-10 ladybugs that were all huddled up in a corner in my room. As long as it was cold (for Houston, anyway) they behaved themselves, which has been for about two months now. Suddenly, they start going about six-ways from nowhere, culminating in me dabbling in the catch-and-release business, yesterday. Did you ever try to catch a ladybug? It's harder than it looks, and the tougher job is keeping it in the can. Plus, I had a coupla' more customers waiting for me downstairs by the back door. How they got up to my second-story room I'll never know. My mom is attacked by these insects nigh on every night as she uses a fluorescent lamp to do her quilling by at a table every night in the family room. I'm beginning to think it's the light and some signal that's emitting from same that's interfereing with the ladybug's headset and instrumentation; kind of like a bug zapper of sorts. Well, I was determined on getting all of those bugs outta there alive, so I got my tools: A flyswatter, and a coffee can. Like I said, capturing them is only half the battle, the harder half is keeping them contained. You can pretty much imagine that with 13-14 ladybugs, that was a lot of trips out my back door. The survivors were the ones that flew away to get caught another day. Usually, catch and release is for fish, but I take it to a Higher level; Try ladybug rescue.