Got ? Ladybug 's . What to do?

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Well I have them. !
In the house. On a warm day , more than a dozen on a window…
This tells me that the house is not as “tight” as I thought it was…
But …?
What to do…?
I catch some in a mesh bag fastened in the vacuum hose.
Turn loose in my high tunnel , under row covers with plants ( Greens) that have white flys and aphids on them. But they seem to just leave…
I have put them on a plant with aphids, and watched them just crawl over aphids and fly away. … ,!
What’s up with that …?
I would have thought that after a long winter… If you put a lady bug on a leaf with aphids , it would chow down ,lay eggs,
And then maybe fly around to check out the new year .".?
So… Just looking for ideas of …
What to do…
How to keep them around …?
?
Most years …, I just crack the window’s "a little " on those warm days…
And most are gone.,
But…
I would rather give them something good to eat.
How to best utilize this ??
How to keep lady bugs around. ?
Any tips on keeping them around ???
Or should I just crack the Windows…?
And yell be free ! … Flyaway,flyaway, …
… ? …Get the "F… ". …Out of here …!..?
So ? … Got ? Lady bugs ?
What do you do…?

Edit: I prefer to use panty hose , in the vacuum hose,
…but…
I just can’t seem to find them…
Maybe in a wadd…? Somewhere …?

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If they have a M or W on their head they’re probably a Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle. No use in keeping them around.

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I always put them on my sweet potatoes that overwinter in my house. I’ve had them lay eggs and grow up, they keep them clean!

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They have been in our house, don’t understand why. We’ve had a few warm days, but it’s been generally cold, so don’t know why they’re emerging now. They usually wait until late March before I see them. They are a big nuisance, they get on you, sometimes bite, nasty. I’ve had to clean a lot a bunch of them out light fixtures already.

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Take a pic and post it. Make sure you truly have ladybugs. There is one bug that looks like a ladybug but is some sort of beetle that was horrible here some years back. They were everywhere in your house.

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I don’t think they’re the usual ladybugs. From what I’ve learned since living here is that it’s an Asian type of bug (lady beetle) that looks like a ladybug. They were imported in the 1980s as a predator of other insects, and have migrated their way here.

https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef416

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Yes, that was what was here in our area for a couple of years. They were horrible to try and get rid of.

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If I understand the life cycle of ladybugs more or less correctly, it is the larval stage that is the voracious predator. Looks and acts a lot like an alligator. The ones you and I see in our houses are the adult stage and are not predatory. They do make the next season’s terminators though. D

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Here is some information about the asian ladybug. Never noticed the M or W. That is distinctive. Thanks for the heads up.

https://www.ladybuglady.com/asianladybeetle.htm