Notes from the Green Truck

As summer wanes and cooler fall weather arrives, certain insects move indoors, seeking shelter from winter’s cold inside northern New Jersey homes and commercial buildings. Stink bugs, boxelder bugs, lady bugs, Asian ladybird beetles and cluster flies are all insects that overwinter inside Bergen County buildings. As fall approaches, these insects slip into homes, office buildings, retail [...]

New research by agricultural scientists at Ohio State University has discovered an interesting connection between New Jersey’s soybean crop, the invasive buckthorn shrub and the home-invading Asian ladybird beetles (often confused with Lady Bugs) that plague homeowners in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Morris and Union counties, New Jersey and Rockland County, New York.
Soybean aphids cause hundreds of [...]

Warm spring temperatures are bringing lady bugs out of hibernation. The colorful red and orange black-spotted beetles can be seen collecting on windowsills in Bergen, Morris, Passaic and Hudson County, New Jersey homes and businesses, seeking a way back into their natural outdoor environment. Considered a good luck symbol by many, lady bugs can be a considerable [...]

Our phones have been ringing all afternoon with stories of massive swarms and invasions of Lady Bugs all over our northern New Jersey area:  Franklin Lakes, Oakland, Hillsdale, Totowa, Ramsey, Haldon, Oradell, Woodcliff Lake, Ridgewood, Wayne and Paramus seem to be the most concentrated areas in Bergen and Passaic Counties.  These Ladybugs are actually Asian Lady Beetles, brought into the [...]