Only if we can figure out a way to actually get them to eat each other instead of our plantsvalley wrote:when they're in the larva stage, they'll eat anything including each other.
Re: Lady Bugs - Friend or Foe?
Your ladybug larvae eat your plants instead of other bugs? I was reading that there are a few rare varieties that do that. Would you be able to post a picture of the ladybugs you have so we can see them? Or maybe post a link from online? The ones I have are only the 7 spot, convergent, and Oak scale destroying ladybugs, but they all eat other bugs, kind of standard ladybugs really, lol
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Cola82
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My only real experience with ladybugs has been when they infest a home, which they have done twice in my life. Once when my dad was living in this tiny little house in the middle of nowhere (they were so thick he was vacuuming them off the ceiling) and later when I was living in my boyfriend's parents' house. I found one inside my current home this spring and immediately took it outside and put it on my plants, but that's about it.
I so rarely encounter them outside.
I so rarely encounter them outside.
