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pests APHID!

OK, shoot me, triple post....

I just got back from my local nursery and turned loose the hounds as PRF puts it.

I released 3500 lady bugs on my plants about 30 mintues ago and watched them for a few minutes....they are already on the attack....I am going to try and get a picture of a lady bug eating an aphid this afternoon when I get home....

price is not bad.....9.95 USD for 1750 lady bugs
 
For me, they usually have several days of mating before they start hunting, and its the larvae that do the best job.
 
POTAWIE said:
For me, they usually have several days of mating before they start hunting, and its the larvae that do the best job.
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Yeah, the larvae are aphid eating machines, but the adults so eat some, too.


AJ, I hope you don't come home to find the Neem has killed your ladybugs.
 
POTAWIE said:
They are also more active at night or when the lights are off.
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Hey, if you're playing Peeping Potawie, how are they gonna be able to mate? They're *lady* bugs, after all.
 
Potawie is right about the mating......I went back home for lunch and the little ladies were having an orgy....no kidding, there were probably 500 pairs mated up....I had to hide my eyes.....
 
I thought I posted this one already, but maybe not.
Here's a ladybug gangbang

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POTAWIE said:
I thought I posted this one already, but maybe not.
Here's a ladybug gangbang

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:shocked:
Hahaha, should print that out and post it next to the infected plants, let the aphids see what is in store for them.
 
yup....just as I thought, when I got home this afternoon, all the males were laying on their sides in their pepper-leaf chaise lounges smoking a cigarette and sipping honeydew brought to them by their temporary mates.....
 
geeez you all are making be think how good it must be to be a ladybug dominate male and all the sweet nectar he would get. AJ have the ladybugs done their job first before all the fun started? The farmer almanac say to plant this weekend where I live. Seems early I'm gonna wait another week.
 
Damn insurgents!


My daylilies are sprouting, and I noticed tonight that they were covered in aphids, so I got all Neemish on their collective ass.
 
Hey I just realized that Black Lab Laser Zapper with adjustable beam that I have hooked up to my computer that I got for the deck outside last year, can be used to kill aphids. It doesn't really hurt the dogs, but it should fry aphids. Even on the lowest stun setting.
I just have to get the aphid recognition software installed.
"Destroy the collective".
 
Here comes the cavalry!

My ladybugs are here!


I turned them loose in the hoop house, and they were happily crawling over pepper leaves in just minutes. A few traitorous cowards tried to desert, but found a sheet of heavy plastic between them and freedom.



Hasta la vista, baby!!!
 
Are Aphids really this prevalent? How concerned should I be if I haven't seen any yet? Or, do they typically arrive once planted outside?

You all have me obsessively and compulsively checking my plants everyday, sometimes twice a day. :lol:
 
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