Nuisance. They won't do any real harm.

You're lucky. Ladybugs are great predators on real nuisance bugs. People PAY to get them!

A nuisance. Well, actually - they may be a sign of good fortune too: From Wikipedia: Coccinellids are and have for very many years been favorite insects of children. The insects had many regional names (now mostly disused) such as the lady-cow, may-bug, golden-knop, golden-bugs (Suffolk); and variations on Bishop-Barnaby (Norfolk dialect) – Barnabee, Burnabee, and the Bishop-that-burneth. The etymology is unclear but it may be from St. Barnabas feast in June, when the insect appears or a corruption of "Bishop-that-burneth", from the fiery elytra of the beetles. The ladybird was immortalised in the still-popular children's nursery rhyme Ladybird, Ladybird: Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home Your house is on fire and your children are gone All except one, and that's Little Anne For she has crept under the warming pan. In parts of Northern Europe, tradition says that one's wish is granted if a ladybird lands on oneself (this tradition lives on in North America, where children capture a ladybird, make a wish, and then "blow it away" back home to make the wish come true). In Italy, it is said by some that if a ladybird flies into one's bedroom, it is considered good luck. In central Europe, a ladybird crawling across a girl's hand is thought to mean she will get married within the year. In some cultures they are referred to as fortune bugs. In Russia, a popular children's rhyme exists with a call to fly to the sky and bring back bread; similarly, in Denmark a ladybird, called a mariehøne ("Mary's hen"), is asked by children to fly to 'our lord in heaven and ask for fairer weather in the morning'. Coccinella septempunctata pair mating. The name that the insect bears in the various languages of Europe is mythic. In this, as in other cases, the Virgin Mary has supplanted Freyja, the fertility goddess of Norse mythology; so that freyjuhœna (Old Norse) and Frouehenge have been changed into marihøne (Norwegian) and Marienvoglein (German), which corresponds with Our Lady's Bird. The esteem with which these insects are regarded has roots in ancient beliefs. In Irish, the insect is called bóín Dé — or "God's little cow" and in Welsh, the term buwch goch gota is used, containing the word 'buwch' meaning "cow"; similarly, in Croatian it is called Božja ovčica ("God's little sheep"). In France it is known as bête à bon Dieu, "the Good Lord's animal",[9] and in Russia, Божья коровка ("God's little cow"),[9] while in both Hebrew and Yiddish, it is called "Moshe Rabbenu's (i.e. Moses's) little cow" or "Moshe Rabbenu's little horse", apparently an adaptation of the Russian name, or sometimes "Little Messiah". In Iran, two Persian words are used; ﮐﻔﺶ ﺪوزک and ﭘﻴﻨﻪ ﺪﻮﺰ, both meaning "shoe cobbler". There is an old story about a woman who tells her husband upon his return from work that a "cobbler" spent the whole day with her and in fact sat on her lap. Hearing this, he flies in to a rage and kills his unfaithful wife. Just then, he notices a lady bird walking in the room and he cries out "Oh my God, that kind of cobbler". In Greece, ladybirds are called πασχαλίτσα (paschalitsa), because they are found abundantly in Eastertime, along with paschalia, the Common Lilac plant, which flowers at the same time. In Malta, the ladybird is called nannakola, and little children sing: Nannakola, mur l-iskola/Aqbad siÄ¡Ä¡u u ibda ogħla (Ladybird go to school, get a chair and start jumping). In Turkey, when a ladybird lands on children, they sing Uç uç böceÄŸi, annen sana terlik papuç alacak (Fly fly bug, your mother will buy you slippers and shoes). In Finnish, ladybird is, for its blood red color, called leppäkerttu, translating to Blood Gertrud from the ancient Baltic-Finnic meaning blood of the word leppä (that means alder in modern Finnish. An alternative name is leppäpirkko. These differ by the female name at the end. In Dutch, the ladybird is called lieveheersbeestje, translating to Our Dear Lord's little creature. In France, ladybirds are considered to be bringers of good weather.

Yep, they will eat your children - RUN FOR THE HILLS !

My Grandmother was abducted by lady bugs.... they even cashed her pension checks... Stupid Lady Bugs.

They are a gift. Treasure them. They will rid your garden of anything bad and nothing good. Then they will leave on their own. Take some nice pictures.

Our screen door was covered with them yesterday. No biggie.

ladybugs are awesome! ive always heard that they are a sign of good luck plus like everyone else has said, they kill the bugs that really ARE a nuisance

I find them to be a nuisance....My house is partially covered in orange from so many of them....

we have 'em too like crazy. They are nothing more than a giant pain in the butt. Suck em up with a vaccuum hose.

Regular ladybirds are ok, but Harmonia axyridis, the Multicolored Asian lady beetle, will bite and will infest your food etc. They go into peoples houses in the autumn to hibernate, but they give off a nasty smell and a stain if scared of squashed. They also eat all the ladybug food and so indirectly kill off the proper US ladybugs.

They are just a nuisance. They can be vacuumed up. http://durmebugs.tripod.com/gettingridofpests/id21.html

I'm having the same problem - only on the upstairs of my house. Every time I go to bed I have to evict about 5 of them from my bedroom, and if I open any of the upstairs windows there are swarms of them everywhere! They don't seem to have caused any damage - I'm just glad I'm not the only one, I was starting to think I'd angered the ladybird god!