All I do is set them free at night and they stay on the plants during the day.
At night they go into full eating mode and do this till the infestaition is gone, but this last year the early growing season was clear of any bugs so our ladybugs stayed in the fridge till I needed them and they were...
I run a commercial greenhouse and when you get infested with aphids in winter ladybugs work the best but I can see how you guys with a few pots outside try them and they do nothing.
They will fly away when you dump them on during that day and they have no food, but try laying out a roll of poly...
I came in like 7th at a trial by fire hotsauce eating contest, what stopped me winning was not what I could take but what I knew was in store for us.... felt like a fat stripper standing on my stomach with high heels and a purse full of rocks!
the pain was so bad 4 hours later that I at 2...
I never had any luck with sevin... Ladybugs for aphids is what I use but as far as the garden goes I suggest you look into what you sprays and how does it look now??
My buddy soaked his garden with a broad leaf killer to kill the weeds and found out that peppers are broad leaf plants ...
Need some more info.
how many plants?
pots or ground?
how many ladybugs you get?
I had a problem but after a couple of ladybug treatments on my 15 or so pots with 25000 ladybugs they are now gone.
aphids never hurt growth they just collect on the flowers and kill them, so no flowers no peppers..
overwatering and too much fert will cause what you see but more than anything overgardening is the problem.
I was a huge overeverything guy with the water and fert that my best peppers weree...
Yes I took these, they were on all our stuff in our commercial greenhouse so we order ladybugs by the bag of thousands and set them free.
Shot with either my Canon 5DMK2 or 7D and 100MM Macro lens.
Email me your address and I will send you large files if you want them..
Ladybugs!
I will maybe have to deal with these little buggers every 2 or 3 years but when I do I hit em with ladybuge, they eat aphids like fat kids eating McNuggets!
Or me eating nuggets....
I had my hands burn for 2 weeks after a harvest.........
not really bad but a hot shower would have them burning every day!!
I had a bottle of daves insanity sauce that sat in a window in my shop for 5 or so years, the top half inch was oil and one winter my buddy brings a friend over to...
I have given a taste of a Naga to over 500 people and when I say taste I mean that I cut a pod into 50 to 80 tiny pieces and use a toothpick to grab one and offer it to them.
a tiny amount like that will show the heat and will not hurt you in that amount.
BUT!!!!!! when you offer a pod to a...