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Are Lady Bugs Good for Gardens?
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Posted by miamiu (My Page) on Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 20:27
| I have heard lady bugs are good for things like aphids and was thinking of buying them online. Is there anything negative about having lady bugs around? Do they eat plants? |
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RE: Are Lady Bugs Good for Gardens?
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- Posted by jean001 z8aPortland, OR (My Page) on
Mon, Nov 2, 09 at 20:41
| Definitely good for gardens. Basically a waste of money to buy them. Plus the fact that researchers question the viability of collecting them to sell. Populations are decreasing for various reasons, and sales is one of them. |
RE: Are Lady Bugs Good for Gardens?
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Lady Bugs, Lady Beetles, are very good for gardens as is their larva. But you need to create conditions that are to their liking to keep them in your garden and that means food and water sources and not using insect poisons which kill those Lady bugs as well as the food they would eat. When insect populations the Lady Bugs eat are low then they rely on plant pollen and there are a number of those plants they can live on, but most are flat blossomed like the Queen Annes Lace many people think of as a weed.
Many people that sell the Lady Beetles will go out and collect them in the wild, an unsustainable means at best and one that might mean that area has a shortage of them. Many people have purchased Lady Bugs and released them in their gardens only to see them leaves for other places, a waste of your money at best.
The best way to get Lady Beetles in your garden is to create an environment that they like and then they will come in and stay. |
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