My bathroom is infested w/ lady bugs.

[tomf]

I keep finding landybugs in my bedroom bathroom. I take them out side where they can do some good. It is odd they would be in the bathroom.

[Rabbits2]

PUT a mens room sign on the door! I would put all the lady bugs in my green house! We have a few in the house all winter and we leave them alone! They are good for house plants!

[PaulF]

It would be nice if they were lady bugs. We get a twice annual infestation of a lady bug look-alike called the Japanese lady beetle. They swarm our house by the thousands and get everywhere. They show up the first warm days of spring, then leave when tree leaves emerge and farm crops begin to come up. The second swarm happens when corn and soybeans are harvested and they make houses their new home. The impostors have a black W or M on top of the head, spew a staining saliva and will bite.

I hope you have the real thing.

[rainbowgardener]

Here's an article with a picture, about the Japanese lady beetle.

https://www.uri.edu/ce/factsheets/sheets/asianladybeetle.html

It is in the same family as the native ladybug (originally called ladybird beetle) and like other ladybugs, does eat aphids, etc.

They come in for the winter and hibernate in your house. Bathrooms seem to be a favored place for them, though one year we had a whole cluster up by the ceiling in our entry hall.

[tomf]

Oh good.

[bangstrom]

The beetles leave a smell that attracts more beetles to the same hibernation spot year after year unless you scrub the area and paint over. They also have a fatal attraction to the inside of curly fluorescent light bulbs.
The Japanese lady beetles ruined my raspberries one year. Their feeding did little damage but their crawling around on the fruit leaves a nasty bitter taste.They are also becoming a flavor problem for wine growers.

https://www.goodfruit.com/Good-Fruit-Grower/April-1st-2006/Asian-lady-beetle-taints-wine/g