Are they actually lady bugs or those blasted kudzu stink bug?

Are they actual lady bugs or those stinking Asian variety? Our chickens won't touch the Asian variety.

Why not put a little bit of netting or an old nylon pantyhose over the vacuum attachment? Then you could vacuum the ladybugs up, then brush them off the nylon into a container? That's how my mom used to get my legos out of the carpet

Heath --- That was my comment to Mark too. They are indeed the Asian variety and I'm pretty sure the chickens would skip them because of the stink. I'm not sure chickens will even eat non-Asian ladybugs.

We had kudzu bugs bad this year in Georgia. I only every heard of them the year before when I first started seeing them. Yes they taste as bad as they smell, I would say talking when they are swarming around you is not recommended. The taste was something like how muscle rub smells and overly strong mints, I was exposed for almost no time before I started spitting. They group into places to hid for the winter, they like light/bright colors, but I have not found them in the shop/house.

As for lady bugs, red and orange, I find them grouped together around the windows on the inside of the shop. I live in the shop as well not exactly air tight to say the least, but like I said in two years no matter how bad the Kudzu bugs and some walls looked black outside this year, none inside.

When cleaning up, I collect the red and orange lady bugs and put them in a box which I store in a cool spot inside the shop. Come summertime I let them out in the garden. Some leave, some get eaten, some stay and give me a jump on my ladybug population.

Ahh, the hours my parents have spent vacuuming up ladybugs. I'm so glad that we have so few where we live now.