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Tag: ladybugs

Insects and Disease, Plants, Shrubs

Ladybug Summer

Today I was so excited to find ladybug larvae on my roses.  I was making the usual weekly rounds, dead-heading, checking things out, snipping out leaves with black spot and scouting for aphids.  Normally when I find a cluster of aphids I strip them off the leaves with my fingers (yes, I wear gloves).  Today as I was brushing them off I noticed a few … Continue reading Ladybug Summer

Unknown's avatarrainyleafJune 26, 2016June 26, 2016Leave a comment
Insects and Disease

Aphids for dinner

  Tonight I released hundreds of live ladybugs on aphid-covered roses.  They had been in a plastic container in a fridge for months and as soon as they began to warm up, they were active and hungry.  They swarmed out onto my hand, wrist and up my arm.  To have any other bug crawling all over my skin would have been more than unsettling.  But … Continue reading Aphids for dinner

Unknown's avatarrainyleafJune 17, 2011June 17, 2011Leave a comment

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