Re: Best place to buy ladybugs

"Omelet" <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Katey Didd" <spamless@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Omelet" <ompomelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > In article <eg7r249slcifej9nm5sg4erjpomjpr2gf6@[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
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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.
>
> 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.
> -- 
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>
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