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# Ladybirds are vicious thing!
Well their larvae are. Varacious devourers of aphids. They just chill out as they get older.

Nasty looking things but for some reason close up they look quite cool.:)
(, Sun 17 May 2009, 10:31, archived)
# Imagine one of those eight feet long.
Behind you.
(, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:23, archived)
# Imagine?
I always have at least one behind me at any one time. Got thousands of the gts in the garden. Last year one of my trees was covered in aphins to the point they were killing it.
So it was either a quotes £400 on a tree surgeon or sixty quid for 40,000 of them.
Ladybirds everywhere last year but sorted the problem out.
(, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:46, archived)
# You should have bought 500 pigeons to eat the ladybirds.
Then 100 tree snakes to eat the pigeons.

Then 20 ....etc
(, Sun 17 May 2009, 14:44, archived)
# I loved the way they used to hang out on my nasturtiums
the ants would be farming/milking the aphids, and the ladybird larvae would be a couple of leaves above them, looking all innocent as if to say "what, us? eat those aphids? never!" then as soon as the ants went they'd go in for the kill.
(, Sun 17 May 2009, 11:51, archived)