Has anyone seen?????

[ginger ninger]

I've still only had the one, that seems to have gone now and left no babies. And i have a fast food restaurant in my garden....the faster i kill the greenfly, the faster it breeds... god dam little.......creatures.

[WeeGarden]

I was on a site visit yesterday to a walled garden which was overgrown with nettles and bramble. There were so many ladybirds around, from larvae to pupae to adults. I was so tempted to put some in my lunchbox to take home to release in my garden. Is that a bad thing?

Would it be cruel to catch ladybirds on my evening walk and relocate them to my garden? I guess they could always leave if they don't like it...

[Incy]

So pleased.....!
Spotted my first ladybird of the year 2 days ago and carefully relocated it from the aphid free runner beans to the totally invaded cherry tree. It rushed happily into a curly leaf and started munching.
Today I went out and discovered 2 ladybirds together on the cherry tree. I do hope they managed to makle lots of little ladybirds. I was starting to despair for the poor tree

[ginger ninger]

Quick up date, i've just been decatterpiling my veg and come across some ladybird larvae, munshing through a "BIG" clump of green fly, so i'm chuffed that i've finally got some ladybirds in my garden

[deezyb]

saw one today! what to do the larvae look like? not seen many at all though

[New_Bud]

I saw a whole field full of them when I was out togging one day. I returned the next day to find them all combine- harvested It was a sad moment I'll admit. That was in late may.

[Tam]

Quite a number of ladybugs overwintered in the garden and appeared in a mild spell, late winter, but have not seen any since then. It was the same with hoverflies, but glory be - several appeared in the garden yesterday, so I hope some ladybugs might wing there way in shortly. I would like to see some wasps as well as they are super nasty-munchers, but they, too, have not put in an appearance this year. I was worried about the lack of bees, but we have hundreds in the garden now.

[rustylady]

I've got ladybirds, hoverflies and loads of bees. Not too many greenfly yet, but loads of blackfly on the dahlias and broadbeans.

[ardroil]

none here, but a ridiculous amount of white/green fly, everywhere, its like the garden is over run by them,

[doodardog]

Orange ladybirf

I'm chuffed to bits, I have seen loads of larvae crawling through my spuds and carrots. Now they are quite happilly pupating on my cabbage netting. I was just coming out of greenhouse when I spotted 1 I had never seen before it was orange so I googled it and indeed it is an orange ladybird! I tried to take a photo but not too good I am afraid.

[ginger ninger]

WOW, look what landed on me this morning......she's a big girl, picky not brill, i have a ladybird..ye ha

[allotmentlady]

seen a fair few on our lottie these past few days but I also have installed a ladybird/lacewing house to attract them.

[ginger ninger]

WOW...I have 2 babys, how cool's that...and i've given them names....Bill & Ben... well they are in the garden!!

[Shadylane]

Aw congrats ginger, we've got loads down t'lotment, which makes weeding take twice as long, only seen a couple of adults at home though, no babies either. But at least the aphid population seems to have returned to more normal levels.

[seasprout]

Ladybirds

Got loads of different species at work.
All stages of growth as well, mind you we have plenty of Aphids for them.!