Yes, but i prosumed gilded was refering toyou for somereason.

 

Sorry about that .

It's possible the smell of the cut grass attracted them.

 

It would be similar to the concentrated scent of feeding aphids (iirc, the aphid is basically a tube, and the sap is relatively unchanged once it has shot through it) and conceivably would attract ladybirds en masse.

Or even the smell of ants, they eat aphid excrement (well thats not technically correct, but you know what i mean)

have any of you ever seen a Ladybird "nest" the sort you make or buy yourself?

 

it looks like a bunch of straws or hollow bamboo, the LB`s nest inside them during the winter (I have a few dotted around my garden too).

 

it`s possible that the grass acts as a similar type of "Shelter" for them, and cutting it disturbs them.

 

it would disturb me!

those nests attract white bees as well

"it`s possible that the grass acts as a similar type of "Shelter" for them, and cutting it disturbs them."

 

The ones I saw didn't look very disturbed (except for the ones that golfers stomped on). It could also be that the whole golf area was full of ladybugs, and I only noticed it at areas of shorter grass. Though I can't remember seeing too many in the taller grass...