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1500 Live LadyBugs - GOOD BUGS! | 
| Brand: Hirts: Beneficial Insects
Buy New: $12.99
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 537
UPC: 045501011001
EAN: 0045501011001
ASIN: B000MR6WRG
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Ladybugs eat aphids, mealy bugs, scale, leaf hoppers, and other destructive pests. | | • | They keep on eating until the bad guys are gone, laying their own eggs in the process. | | • | You will love them because ladybugs really work, plus they will be doing something favorable for the environment. | | • | You will receive 1500 Lady Bugs! | | • | Immediate Shipping! |
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Product Description
favorite "good bug" ladybugs have been popular beneficial insects for the past 20 years. When released at sundown (because they don't fly at night), ladybugs eat aphids, mealy bugs, scale, leaf hoppers, and other destructive pests. And they keep on eating until the bad guys are gone, laying their own eggs in the process. When new pests arrive, fresh ladybugs will be waiting. You will love them because ladybugs really work, plus they will be doing something favorable for the environment. LADYBUGS (Hippodamia convergens) USE: Ladybugs prefer to eat aphids and will devour up to 50 a day, but they will also attack scale, mealy bugs, boil worm, leaf hopper, and corn ear worm. They dine only on insects and do not harm vegetation in any way. RELEASE: Ladybugs should always be released after sundown since they only fly in the daytime. During the night, they will search the area for food and stay as long as there is food for them to eat. The more they eat, the more eggs they lay and the more insect-eating larvae you will have. It is best if the area has been recently watered. Ladybugs tend to crawl up and toward light. So release them in small groups at the base of plants and shrubs that have aphids or other insects, and in the lower parts of trees. RECOMMENDATIONS: Ladybugs may be kept in a refrigerator after they are received (35 to 40 degrees F.) and released as needed. Ladybugs received March through May should not be stored more than 2 or 3 days since their body fat has been depleted. From June on, they may be stored 2 or 3 months. It is normal for there to be several dead Ladybugs in the container, especially those received from March through May. These bugs have reached the end of their life cycle. We have included many extra bugs to compensate for this.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Natural bug eaters May 4, 2008
Judy K. Polhemus (Shreveport, LA)
25 out of 49 found this review helpful
Aphids eating your tomato leaves? Got you some scale? Or mealy bugs? How about leaf hoppers? If you have a garden and you slaved and toiled over making that dirt just right, and lovingly dug holes and planted all those little baby plants, you want them safe. Right?
What better way to keep a garden clean of nasty little varmints than nature's own bug eaters: Lady Bugs!! Order by the 1500's and you have plenty for the duration of your garden. Pluck out some from the container just before sundown and place at the bottom of the plants. Because ladybugs don't fly at night, they will crawl upward and stay as long as there is food. They feed on aphids, leaf hoppers, mealy bugs, and scale. As they feed, they lay eggs which will hatch and continue feeding on the bad bugs.
Because lady bugs are a natural killer of bad bugs, you will not want to use insecticide on your garden while you nurture them. A container of 1500 costs just $12.99. It is cheaper than pesticide and all-natural!
Great way to get rid of aphids on tomato and rose plants March 23, 2008
Michele C. (Maryland, USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Used them to get rid of the aphids on my aerogarden plants in the house. If you release them when the room is dark and the door is shut they make their home on the plants. When it gets light out and you open the doors the next morning they've already settled in on the plants so they don't fly around the house. They got rid of tons of aphids within a few days. Something that I tried to do safely for 2 months with no success.
Love These Bugs! October 10, 2007
Hibiscus Lady (In Paradise - Sarasota Florida)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I am thrilled with my order of 1500 live LadyBugs. They just "promptly" arrived, packed beautifully, and they are all ready to enter my garden tonight after the sun goes down. Tomorrow the aphids on my Hibiscus Plants will be eaten alive by these lovelies.
Thank you Hirts Gardens for this wonderful item. I have searched high and low everywhere for live lady bugs, and to no avail. All I kept hearing were - no we dont carry them or they are out of season. Not at Hirts. Transaction was smooth and easy, merchandise arrived intact and I am pleased with everything.
Please ignore negative reviews you may have read about this organization. They are number one in my book.
 live ladybugs April 29, 2008
Dyana K (texas)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
We ordered the 1500 live ladybugs for my daughter's prekindergarten class. I told all the teachers we would have plenty to share with all 3 classes. Unfortunately out of 1500 ladybugs only about half of them were alive upon arrival. We were very disappointed. We were told some of them would be dead, but extra would be included to make up for the dead ladybugs, so we were expecting around 1500 "live" ladybugs. We didn't have enough to share with all 3 classes. and the kids had questions about the dead bugs.
Lady Bugs August 25, 2007
Claire E. Smith (Boston, Ma USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
The Lady Bugs were great. I will order them every year from now on.
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