so it’s getting cold out now and once again, just like the first winter in this house, this place be poppin’ with ladybugs
what I wanna know is where were all these fuck asses for the last 2-3 months while spidermites and aphids fucked my tomatoes and chamomile up and I didn’t see a single fuckin’ one of them?
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If it makes you feel better, I have the same problem
But with yellowjackets
do yellowjackets sap nutrients from your tomatoes, yellowing and then killing the leaves and tremendously reducing crop yield, while seemingly being immune to like 4 different commonly sold insecticides specifically marketed towards spider mites?
I think they eat like protein so like meat and bugs but idk
anyway if anyone is wondering the correct choice to spidermites in my tomatoes is “take a cutting, root it, it’ll take like a week and just burn the other plants, not as a reddit meme but as a testament to your outright hatred for spider mites”
No, but I accidentally stepped on one getting out of the shower and it gave me a big ouchie
I’m sorry but I hope you’re okay and also I feel like stepping on a ladybug shouldn’t hurt you so like again i hope you’re okay my dawg
It was a yellowjacket
And boy howdy, my heel hurts pretty good
Hey hey, they were there! They were probably in their larval stage, doing their best!
sorry couldn’t see them under the swarms of aphids shitting their sick ass honey all over my pepper plant leaves >:~(
next year I’m going to buy like 1000 predatory mites that kill aphids and spider mites as soon as either show up
just buy ladybugs at the nursery?
yes let me buy what’s presently infesting my house and which will fly away again when there’s aphids to eat
well there’s some work involved. just like bees you have to train em, but bees work together.
I saw a ladybug the other day, they seem to bloom around the spring here and fall.
I’ve seen four inside my house today and I’ve only been home 2 hours
EAT THE FUCKING APHIDS THAT ARE GETTING ALL FUCK NASTY IN MY CHAMOMILE
Make better/more ladybug habitat in your yard if you want them on your plants. If they’re around your house in the winter you’re on the right track. Leave dead/dry vegetation up instead of cleaning everything. They like nesting/hibernating in leaf litter, so don’t rake it up. Leave it in piles and drifts out in the yard. Include umbrelliferous flowers so ladybugs have good places to perch and hunt from.
Note that in the springtime its their larva that eat the most. Don’t buy ladybug adults, they can be invasive and mostly just fly away. Ideally you want to create ladybug habitat and encourage generations to live in your place. If you’ve got them and aphids in the area, you’re on the right track.
Also keep an eye out for aphidoletes, they’re absolutely voracious aphid hunters.
