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?

On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), 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?


Careful. I don't know the whole story, but someone brought in
ladybugs into this area a few years ago. Now they are everywhere and
do like to come in when the weather cools.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

I'm pretty sure those are those orangey ladybugs, and not the bright
red ones. I think they are Asian beetles. I'm pretty sure regular
ladybug are fine.

On May 16, 9:46 am, The Cook wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), 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?

Careful. I don't know the whole story, but someone brought in
ladybugs into this area a few years ago. Now they are everywhere and
do like to come in when the weather cools.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

Sam wrote:
I'm pretty sure those are those orangey ladybugs, and not the bright
red ones. I think they are Asian beetles. I'm pretty sure regular
ladybug are fine.

The only problem, in my area anyway, was when the orange lady bugs
appeared by the thousands in the yard as well as in the house, I
haven't seen a red lady bug since. That was 5 or 6 years ago.

Tom J

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Sam wrote:

I'm pretty sure those are those orangey ladybugs, and not the bright
red ones. I think they are Asian beetles. I'm pretty sure regular
ladybug are fine.

I brought in a couple of hundred here and never had a problem. The seem
to like to pupate in my asparagus patch.
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein

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The Cook wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), 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?


Careful. I don't know the whole story, but someone brought in
ladybugs into this area a few years ago. Now they are everywhere and
do like to come in when the weather cools.

But I'll bet you have few garden pests! g They eat aphids, scale,
mealy bug and other things. Another good predator are lacewing larvae.
I got rid of a persistant scale infection on the succulents in my
greehouse using those...
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein

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The Cook wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), 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?


Careful. I don't know the whole story, but someone brought in
ladybugs into this area a few years ago. Now they are everywhere and
do like to come in when the weather cools.

But I'll bet you have few garden pests! g They eat aphids, scale,
mealy bug and other things. Another good predator are lacewing larvae.
I got rid of a persistant scale infection on the succulents in my
greehouse using those...

I remember my ex-husband releasing them in our large vegetable garden years
ago. At least 90% were gone the next day. A few days later we didn't find
any. Same thing with praying mantis he bought. We never ordered any more
beneficials.

--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein

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"Katey Didd" wrote:

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The Cook wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), 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?


Careful. I don't know the whole story, but someone brought in
ladybugs into this area a few years ago. Now they are everywhere and
do like to come in when the weather cools.

But I'll bet you have few garden pests! g They eat aphids, scale,
mealy bug and other things. Another good predator are lacewing larvae.
I got rid of a persistant scale infection on the succulents in my
greehouse using those...

I remember my ex-husband releasing them in our large vegetable garden years
ago. At least 90% were gone the next day. A few days later we didn't find
any. Same thing with praying mantis he bought. We never ordered any more
beneficials.

How wet do you keep the yard?

I'm sorry you had bad luck. It worked very well for me!

I did, however, have a similar experince with a mantis casing. I found
a few the next year but the trouble with those is that they are
cannibals.
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein

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The Cook wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), 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?


Careful. I don't know the whole story, but someone brought in
ladybugs into this area a few years ago. Now they are everywhere and
do like to come in when the weather cools.

But I'll bet you have few garden pests! g They eat aphids, scale,
mealy bug and other things. Another good predator are lacewing larvae.
I got rid of a persistant scale infection on the succulents in my
greehouse using those...

I remember my ex-husband releasing them in our large vegetable garden
years
ago. At least 90% were gone the next day. A few days later we didn't
find
any. Same thing with praying mantis he bought. We never ordered any more
beneficials.

How wet do you keep the yard?

I don't know how to answer that. A wet yard? You mean watering? We watered
as needed by the plants at the time.


I'm sorry you had bad luck. It worked very well for me!

I did, however, have a similar experince with a mantis casing. I found
a few the next year but the trouble with those is that they are
cannibals.
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein

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The Cook wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), 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?


Careful. I don't know the whole story, but someone brought in
ladybugs into this area a few years ago. Now they are everywhere and
do like to come in when the weather cools.

But I'll bet you have few garden pests! g They eat aphids, scale,
mealy bug and other things. Another good predator are lacewing larvae.
I got rid of a persistant scale infection on the succulents in my
greehouse using those...

I remember my ex-husband releasing them in our large vegetable garden years
ago. At least 90% were gone the next day. A few days later we didn't find
any. Same thing with praying mantis he bought. We never ordered any more
beneficials.



You have to have adequate numbers of prey around to keep any predator
happy.

No prey equals no predators.

A neighbour of ours bought a package of ladybugs once.

They all flew across the street to a less kempt lot.

The only predators I bring home are the ones I find in weird locales,
like the preying mantis I found clinging to a bank downtown.

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The Cook wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), 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?


Careful. I don't know the whole story, but someone brought in
ladybugs into this area a few years ago. Now they are everywhere and
do like to come in when the weather cools.

But I'll bet you have few garden pests! g They eat aphids, scale,
mealy bug and other things. Another good predator are lacewing larvae.
I got rid of a persistant scale infection on the succulents in my
greehouse using those...

I remember my ex-husband releasing them in our large vegetable garden
years
ago. At least 90% were gone the next day. A few days later we didn't
find
any. Same thing with praying mantis he bought. We never ordered any more
beneficials.



You have to have adequate numbers of prey around to keep any predator
happy.

No prey equals no predators.

A neighbour of ours bought a package of ladybugs once.

They all flew across the street to a less kempt lot.

The only predators I bring home are the ones I find in weird locales,
like the preying mantis I found clinging to a bank downtown.

Where I live now we have natural predators and see lady bugs and mantis all
the time. Nonetheless I just saw some aphids on one of the tomato plants at
sundown.

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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...
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein

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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?

Don't waste your money. They will leave your garden in hours.

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"Katey Didd" wrote:

"Sam" wrote in message
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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?

Don't waste your money. They will leave your garden in hours.

But they left their eggs. :-) I've had a good population now for
several years. When I dumped my lot, I put them onto some grapvine
leaves that were covered in Aphids.

Feed them and they will at least leave some progeny.

You can also, as I said, purchase lacewing eggs. That way you get the
best predatory stage. The larvae.
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein

I'm trying to convince both neighbors to buy them!
~tom
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"Katey Didd" wrote:

"Sam" wrote in message
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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?

Don't waste your money. They will leave your garden in hours.

But they left their eggs. :-) I've had a good population now for
several years. When I dumped my lot, I put them onto some grapvine
leaves that were covered in Aphids.

Feed them and they will at least leave some progeny.

You can also, as I said, purchase lacewing eggs. That way you get the
best predatory stage. The larvae.
--
Peace! Om

"Human nature seems to be to control other people
until they put their foot down." -- Stephan Rothstein