Ground beetle invasion

[fendtfan]

How do you respond? Two householders living alongside my fields have emailed me and phoned moaning about thousands of ground beetles invading there homes and gardens and requesting I do something about them. I have explained they are beneficial and I have no reason to feel their invasion has anything to do with my farming activities and more to do with climatic conditions. The general response when you apply pesticides is we are irresponsible money grabbing anti environmentalists then when faced with such an invasion the same folk are requesting help or apportioning blame.

 

[Benn]

Ignore them
What do they expect you to do?
Some people just love to moan.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Tip a load of pig sh!t there then they'll stop moaning about the beetles