Bugs in the Garden: Good or Bad
No one likes to spray chemicals on their beautiful vegetable garden that holds ingestible food, yet many gardeners feel pressured by chewed-up leaves, desecrated produce and unsightly pests lingering around the crops. Today more and more gardeners are choosing more earth-friendly methods of pest control. One solution is to introduce live ladybugs to your garden. They’re not interested in what you’ve got going on, but they will be intensely interested in the predatory bugs floating around. Ladybugs love to eat nasty aphids, beetles, weevils and mites!
When you order your live ladybugs, you will receive a UPS shipment of adult stage insects. Within 8-10 days of their release, each female ladybug will lay 10 to 50 eggs beneath leaves in your yard. In just 2 to 5 days, dark flight-less creatures with orange spots will emerge, ready to feast upon 50 to 60 aphids per day. After 21 days, they pupate and the prettier adult ladybugs come out in 2 to 5 days, hungry and ready to consume 5,000 aphids each! Arbico Organics ships their ladybugs Monday through Wednesday, with orders going out next-day. Since some ladybugs may perish during transport, extra ones are sent with each order. Ladybugs prefer temperatures from 61 to 82 degrees. If necessary, you may store adults for 1 to 3 weeks at 35 to 45 degrees before releasing them into the world to propagate.
Arbico (Arizona Biological Control Inc) Organics began as a small upstart more than 30 years ago when biology teacher Rick Frey came up with an innovative way to control garden pests without the use of harmful pesticides.”Just imagine how many tons of pesticides we have stopped from going into the environment over the years,” says this self-professed “Bug-Man.” Rick’s wife, Sheri, speaks about “bio-balance” at biological control conferences and sustainable agriculture events around the world. The 10-acre ARBICO facility is situated in the Catalina mountains of Tucson, Arizona, where helpful live ladybugs are raised at affordable prices for commercial and residential gardeners.
The only real downside to buying live ladybugs is that some people feel this may upset nature’s balance. An overabundance of ladybugs will send them packing: they’ll be in search of food and you’ll be in search of the money you’ve lost. Even so, the ladybugs make ideal predators. You won’t have to worry about them succumbing to other predatory garden pests. The bright color warns others that they look like an unsatisfying meal. They can release a bad smelling and orange-tasting chemical when stressed, which other predators find downright revolting. Ladybugs have also been known to play dead and even bite! (But don’t worry because humans can’t feel their tiny mandibles at all.) To order ladybugs of your very own, visit www.arbico-organics.com.
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