So, Alan, I feel bad for you being in the upper Midwest and not having this infestation of

Ladybug-like beetles that are coming into every house and home in the Washington area.

Yeah, it is one of the advantages, I guess, of living in the frigid Northern Tundra,

which is that summer ends and early August, but I do not have the problem that you all seem to be

experiencing down in the swamp that is DC. Maybe your giant mosquitoes ate them all.

I will say this happened in childhood, too, that there would be a bit of a second summer,

mid to late fall, and we would just get Ladybugs everywhere. It was kind of like a seasonal visit.

It's kind of nice. These are Ladybugs. These are Lady beetles. There's a big difference,

evidently, and one we are supposed to love in our lucky and let in our homes. The other one

we're supposed to have murdered viciously because they're just squarming monsters.

Are they an invasion of species? They're invading my whole life. Just thousands of them all

at once everywhere. I have not experienced this. I have not seen this recently or the past.

I do have my favorite seasonal visitor, which is that my whole backyard in the spring and fall

gets taken over by slugs at night. They're just everywhere. How did you find that out?

By walking around and stepping on them. That's how I found out. The way God intended.

I feel really bad for slugs because slugs are almost like, no, no, no, hear me out.

Hear me out. Slugs are almost like snails. Everyone likes a good snail, so we should all like slugs.

And yet, there's something about how just like, there's no crunchy shell to offset the gooseyness

of the slug. It's out of balance. The goosey to crunchy ratio is out of balance with slugs.

So we only like bugs when they're out dead day. That's what we're looking at as a certain

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