Infestation

Ficheall

My bedroom seems to be constantly infested with... butterflies
Occasionally I pick up the half dozen or so that I find hanging around near the window and put them outside, but then a week or two later there's another half dozen hanging around inside the window again.
They don't bother me - except on the odd occasion that I fall asleep with the light on and they make a fierce racket battering themselves off the lampshade, or when I've to pick up the dead ones that do be scattered on the floor.
It's nowhere near as impressive as the hordes of yellow butterflies that followed Mauricio Babilonia around in One Hundred Years of Solitude - I only ever have about five or six, and they don't leave my bedroom unless I put them out the window, but I'm curious nonetheless.
They're Red Admirals, I think, and don't appear with any frequency in other rooms in the house.

What to do, if anything? Or might anyone have an explanation?

It's not a recent thing - it's been a year or two at least. It's never really bothered me - just saw another six fairly lively-looking ones there this morning and thought I'd ask about it...

OutlawPete

Turn off the lights and pretend your Batman.

MagicSean

OutlawPete wrote: »

Turn off the lights and pretend your Batman.

This. Clearly you've been given a calling to be a superhero.

Ficheall

OutlawPete wrote: »

Turn off the lights and pretend your Batman.

But they don't flutter around when they know it's night time.
I'd have to go poking them, and finding them in the dark would be difficult.
Could wear a blindfold, I suppose...

dubtom

Epic, perhaps your a special person and they can sense your specialness, or one of them laid eggs in your underpant drawer last year.

smk89

Butterfly problems usually indicate a nearby unicorn infestation. Call your local pest controller.

Angron

It's your fault. Your scent is too rich with flowery goodness.

admiralofthefleet

stop sleeping in a barn, problem solved

purity

You have the butterfly effect:eek:

Cú Giobach

Ficheall wrote: »

But they don't flutter around when they know it's night time.
I'd have to go poking them, and finding them in the dark would be difficult.
Could wear a blindfold, I suppose...

lol bumping around your bedroom in the dark in just your underwear poking butterflies I can't stop giggling at that idea.

2 years ago I had about 30/40 fluttering around my living room when I came back after being away for a few days. I lay down in the middle of the floor and revelled in the sheer surreality of the situation.

neiphin

Cú Giobach wrote: »

I had about 30/40 fluttering around my living room
I lay down in the middle of the floor and revelled in the sheer surreality of the situation.

were you stoned ?

Celly Smunt

butterflies are attracted to gays you know.

gigawatt

red admirals hibernate over winter and wake up when the warm weather comes back, sounds like somehow they found a little spot to snuggle up in in your bedroom they'll all be gone soon with this good weather.

Cú Giobach

neiphin wrote: »

were you stoned ?

Not at that moment, but I sure felt like I was tripping.

Kidchameleon

Get rid of them, if there are loads of them, you might end up with a maggot problem. Happened for me, except I had moths...

SEPT 23 1989

Ficheall=Buffalo Bill

Cú Giobach

Kidchameleon wrote: »

Get rid of them, if there are loads of them, you might end up with a maggot problem. Happened for me, except I had moths...

Caterpillars?? Lovely little things.

Dangerous Man

Yeah, well maybe if you stopped kidnapping girls, killing them, cutting off their skin, sewing it together and prancing around your bedroom in a robe with a Nazi bedspread and your junk tucked behind your legs listening to 'Goodbye Horses' or whatever it is you wouldn't have butterflies all over the gaff.

It's disgusting.

W.Shakes-Beer

I'd love butterflies, all i get is wasps and daddy-long legs. Fúckers.