In article , Persephone
wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:18:34 -0500, Omelet
wrote:

In article
,
Sam wrote:

I would like some ladybugs for my SMALL garden. 9foot by 5 foot. I
have ants, so I assume aphids. Where is the best place online to by a
small qty of them.

Any tips for keeping them around?

Okay, so nobody else answered your question... I've seen them for sale
in various garden catalogues and I don't think it seems to matter. I
bought some beneficial nematodes at random and have had very few fleas
since!

Let's try google:

http://tinyurl.com/5e5quo

Look thru the sites the search turned up and just choose the best price
with a LIVE DELIVERY guarantee. :-)

I got lucky and got mine for free. I went out to the employee parking
lot one night and evidently they were migrating! They were all over the
cars under the lights.

I spend two hours gathering as many as I could find...

How does one gather ladybugs?

Persephone

Picking them up off the car hoods/bonnets carefully with fingernails and
placing them gently into a jar. ;-)

Seriously, they were all over the cars in the lot! This was around
midnight.

When I was a kid, I used to gather them for mom out of a local field
where they were all over the grass.
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Peace! Om

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until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein