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Old 12-21-2007, 01:24 PM   #1
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Ladybugs are great little helpers in the garden During the spring the adult female ladybug can lay up to three hundred eggs in an aphid colony. The eggs normally hatch in two to five days. The newly hatched larvae feed on aphids for up to three weeks and then enter the pupae stage. About one week later, the adult ladybug emerges. There can be as many as six generations of ladybugs hatched in a year.

They also eat white flies, mealy bugs, spider mites, and other types of soft-bodied insects.
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Old 12-24-2007, 11:13 PM   #2
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I'm always happy when a ladybug lands on my hand! It brightens my day. In my opinion, ladybugs are a great way to avoid artificial insecticides. Ladybugs eat many pest insects that are native to most gardens anyway!
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Old 12-25-2007, 01:37 PM   #3
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as long as lady birds don't come near me I'm okay, i hate insects, but if it does its job but not me I'm alright with that.
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