Re: Best place to buy ladybugs

"Omelet" <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> The Cook <susan_r23666@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT), Sam <standish22@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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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?
>>
>>
>> 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.

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