I recently learned it’s the larvae (little black and orange alligator looking things) that do most of the eating. We ordered ladybugs this year, most of them flew away, but they left little orange oval eggs on the back of a few leaves. When the larvae hatched, they demolished the aphids.
rise my minions, RISE
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pageflight@lemmy.world 1 week ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well hell, did not know that! Thought the adults did the murder.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Video I’ve never found again, nerdy fat kid releases 500 ladybugs he ordered online. He opens the can, points it down, and they just go FLOMPH, hit the ground in mass. The look of disappointment is hilarious. Poor guy is just staring straight down at what I assume he expected would be a dramatic event. I expected a dramatic event!
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 week ago
He expected them to all take flight in a synchronous manner lol
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Aphids deserve it.
Phineaz@feddit.org 1 week ago
You haven’t played Grounded, I reckon?
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 1 week ago
I’ve not… 🔍
ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 week ago
fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Ladybugs rescued my plants this summer! I actually ordered 20 of them to get rid of aphids (and the ants which came with them). They took a week, then everything alive was eaten. They actually took up a fight with the ants. There were some casualties, but apparently the ladybugs won.
Felt a bit silly to order bugs in the mail, but collecting them took ages and one looks ridiculous hunting for ladybugs in the park.
bulwark@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I also got a bag of ladybugs this summer to control aphids on my cherry tree, but they didn’t stick around. Idk if I applied them too late or the birds got them but we didn’t get any cherries because of the aphids. I’m going to try again next year with more bags of them and earlier in the season.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Where did you get only like 20? Everywhere I look to buy them I have to buy like 2500 at a time. Or am I misunderstanding?
fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
No i really got 20 (19, one was dead on arrival). :) My local hardware store ships them like this.