Re: Best place to buy ladybugs

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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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.

Aphids on tomatoes? Really?
I've never seen that. They seem to hang out mostly on the muscadine 
grapevines I use as a privacy fence, and they can have those. <g>
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