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How to care for your Ladybugs!
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This is the million dollar question, which lead me into a two year research into Ladybugs, History of, Behavior, Needs, and Wants. Where to start? "All bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs."
I believe one first needs to know the History of the species before one can answer that question. So, I have wrote a blog called "History of the Ladybug"
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Now onto Behavior. Ladybugs are social insects in that they like to be in herds, or great numbers like Some lady beetle, or lady bug, colonies have been reported to contain as many as 500 gallons of beetles. A gallon of beetles contains from 72000 to 80000 adults.
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Needs:What do they eat? Aphids on Houseplants,Aphids on Plants,Aphids on Tomatoes
a ladybug menu are boll worm, broccoli worm, whitefly, mealybugs, armored scales, pit scales, mites, tomato horn worm and cabbage moth. They also like to eat eggs of other insects like moth and more. Ladybugs enjoy smelling pollen and they have some pollen and nector that they favor over others. So, smell to the Ladybug is equal if not greater to the Ladybug then vision is to man.
But to sum it up in one sentence "Aphids to the Ladybug is like Steak to Man!"
If I offered you a steak or hamber if you are meat eater nine times out of ten you would chose steak. Well, Ladybugs would chose Aphids or the above choices.
Wants: The ladybug wants is a hard one because I do not speak in Ladybug! But I can get fairly close to what with my two years of research. With the above said, they need to feel safe, in a nurturing environment. Ladybugs do have predators which feed on them like birds. I once release a herd of Ladybugs and actually watched with scopes and safari viewing glasses to see where they went and what they did? First they found food, second they found shelter-a hollowed out squarreled out tree. So, armed with those photos I set out to make the best shelter for the Ladybug. So, I wrote a blog called "Ladybugs need a home"
