1500 Live Ladybugs + Hirt's Nature Nectar-Guaranteed Live Delivery-No Ship to HI

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HirtsLadybug1500
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Product Description

A favorite "good bug," ladybugs have been a 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. Spray the foliage in the area of the ladybug release with Hirt's Natures Nectar™, shortly before releasing the ladybugs. Ladybug Nectar is a specially formulized nutritional supplement. This nutrient rich food successfully substitutes for many of the nutrients found in natural nectars, pollen, and honeydew (aphid waste). It is the best replacement food when a natural food supply is lacking, and stimulates egg production in ladybugs, lacewings, and other beneficial insects. It also helps encourage and maintain a continuous local beneficial insect population in your yard, garden or greenhouse.
  • Cannot ship to Hawaii
  • Release at sundown
  • They keep on eating until the bad guys are gone
  • Ladybugs prefer to eat aphids and will devour up to 50 a day
  • You will receive approximately 1,500 live Lady Bugs plus Hirt's Nature Nectar™

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Reviews

  • 5
    The best priced lady beetles I have found and they are in excellent health.

    Posted by Robert Hullinger on Jun 20th 2021

    All the critters arrived alive and ready to dine. released half of the shipment on a cool evening the day I received them and my plants have had ladybugs on them ever since and I have to look harder everyday since to find pests destroying the leafs. The other half are happily hibernating in the refrigerator as of today and it's 90 plus degrees outside so there will be plenty of new lace bugs, aphids, mites and flies for them to gobble when I release them tonight or tomorrow morning before sunrise. I will be buying more for a later series of releases as the season moves ahead.

  • 5
    They work!

    Posted by Jenny Pyle on Aug 23rd 2020

    My garden got totally wiped out by aphids last year. I used every kind of spray or powder I could find. They killed everything but the aphids, nothing would stop those little monsters. This year at first sign of aphids I ordered ladybugs from Hirt's. They arrived in a timely manner and were all alive. I released them in waves over a few days. I cut a corner of their bag so I could control how many would come out at a time. I put them right onto the leaves with the aphids and they went right to them and started chowing down. It was something to watch. I would recommend spraying the nectar on areas you want the ladybugs to stick around on. At first I didn't use the nectar and the ladybugs stayed a little while but then disappeared. When I used the nectar they stayed for at least several days. I did have some trouble with ants since they had already set up a farming operation on the aphids. They would bite the ladybugs that tried to get their aphids. I mixed sugar water with borax and soaked cotton balls in it then put the cotton balls in spots I found the ants coming from--away from the ladybugs because I didn't want them getting into it. It took out the ant colonies so the ladybugs could feast in peace. Over the past month the ladybugs have disappeared along with the aphids. But in the last couple of weeks I have noticed a resurgence in aphids. I wasn't sure what to do but then I noticed ladybugs starting to show up again. Each day there's a few more ladybugs. Now I have found ladybug larvae on the infected plants which is really great to see. They are keeping the aphid infestation in check but I think I will order another shipment of ladybugs just to give these guys some backup. Plus it's just so darn fun to see all the little buggers running around the garden. I am so glad to have found an effective, natural way to control these nasty pests in my garden and keep my plants alive and healthy.

  • 4
    Ladybugs

    Posted by Unknown on Jul 17th 2020

    The ladybugs all came living, followed directions and released them after a rain in the evening. The 4 stars is because they all left my patio within 3 days. I have a lot of bugs- mealy, scale, white fly and a couple hundred plants out there for them to find the food. Wish they would stay in the garden longer and feed on the pests! Not sure why they didn’t stick around, with the appropriate food supply and water.

  • 4
    Ladybugs

    Posted by Unknown on Jul 17th 2020

    The ladybugs all came living, followed directions and released them after a rain in the evening. The 4 stars is because they all left my patio within 3 days. I have a lot of bugs- mealy, scale, white fly and a couple hundred plants out there for them to find the food. Wish they would stay in the garden longer and feed on the pests! Not sure why they didn’t stick around, with the appropriate food supply and water.