Re: Best place to buy ladybugs

In article <g0o1e1$d9j$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Katey Didd" <spamless@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > I have a very small scale garden, but I think it would work the same,
if
> > you have time and a bigger space.
> 
> This sounds workable in a small garden but ours are/were large. The
ladybugs 
> my ex-husband bought didn't read the book. In two days we didn't see any

> left in the garden. I'm sure there were a few but we had to resort to a 
> chemical spray.

Chemical spray will deter all kinds of predatory insects.  While I do 
use sevin when I absolutely have to, (it biodegrades rapidly so seems to 
have minimal impact on my spiders, assassin bugs and ladybird beetles), 
I try to minimize that as much as possible.

Placing some birdhouse gourd nesting houses for house wrens, keeping 
some areas (for reptilian and amphibian predators) damp in the yard, 
rocky areas where they can hide, and jealously guarding  my spiders does 
a lot for me.  I'm also getting a healthy population of Anole lizards 
and fence lizards. :-)

I don't have a lot of extra geckos right now like I've had in the past, 
or I'd offer to mail you some. <g>  It's getting to be a bit hot now 
tho' to ****p live lizards.

See if you can get  your hands on some toad tadpoles. Raise them up in 
an outdoor tem****ary pond.  I keep finding the cuties in unexpected 
places!

I'm still going to have to use BT tho' for brassicas and my passion 
vines, but that won't kill predatory insects.  It only works on larval 
forms of pests.
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