Good Bugs for Your Garden - Live Ladybugs, Praying Mantids
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Besides enjoying gardening, I also homeschool my kids. I want to make the garden a wonderful, relaxing place to learn naturally and be joyful. I hope to let the good critters do some of the hard work for me so I can enjoy my children and my garden instead of fighting off bugs that want to leave holes in my leaves and food. Bad bugs - yuck. Good bugs - YAY!
If you love gardening, are new to the backyard, or know someone who likes to putter outside... this is the place for you, too. You'll find great gifts for gardeners, helpful live bugs, educational goodies for kids, and more. Come browse this page and be inspired!
(pictured: Live Ladybug or Ladybird Beetle photo, sxc.hu)
How many ladybugs do you need?
1500 ladybugs will help protect about 500 sq.ft. of your garden.
You can have 1500 Real Live Ladybugs shipped straight to you!
"Ladybrd Beetles" are super sweet, natural, and good for gardens!
1500 Live Ladybugs - Good Bugs - Ladybugs - Guaranteed Live Delivery!
Amazon Price: $14.99 (as of 05/26/2012)
Live Ladybugs (Hippodamia convergens)
USE: Ladybugs are general predators that feed on a variety of slow-moving insects including Aphids, Mites, Scales, Moth eggs, Thrips, Leaf Hoppers, Mealybugs, Chinch Bugs, Asparagus Beetle larvae, Whitefly and other nasties that eat your plants or cause havoc They dine only on insects and do not harm vegetation (or people) in any way. They are pretty too!
You get:
* 1,500 Live Ladybugs, Pre-fed to make it to you in good shape.
* Ladybugs are great for children to observe, for homeschooling or school projects, and make a unique gift for gardeners!
* This company guarantees live delivery and you order through the safety of Amazon
Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ladybug Poll
Ladybugs are amazing creatures that are terrific for your garden, gentle, and lovely!
Ladybug Poem and Legend
Just for fun...
If a ladybug lands on you, you can make a wish and chant:
"Ladybird, ladybird fly away home.
Your house is on fire and your children all roam."
If the ladybug flies away, your wish will come true.
Praying Mantis
will not eat your ladybugs!
Use these two kinds of good bugs together to protect your plants.
Wow! Praying Mantid Egg Cases to Hatch up to 400 Babies
These are SO amazing to watch hatch!!!
* Mantis are great for Pest Control and are also fun!
* Each Mantis Egg Case has approx 50 to 200 baby live praying mantis
* Guaranteed Live Delivery!
Praying Mantis Egg Case - 2 Praying Mantids Egg Cases - Live Good Bugs
Amazon Price: $19.99 (as of 05/26/2012)
Harmless Praying Mantis bugs eat a wide variety of other insects, including beetles, caterpillars, grubs, and aphids.
They don't fly, so they tend to stay around the area where they are released. Like ladybugs, preying mantids will not hurt people, pets, or the environment. They are the perfect organic gardening 'product.' Order to use early in the season, before there are pest problems, and these little guys will help keep your garden free of pests.
Once hatched from the eggs cases, your mantids will grow through the Spring and Summer. They will reach a length of 5 to 6 inches and shed their skins several times.
These bugs are fascinating to watch. Mantids are content to stay pretty much in one area, They wait for their food to walk by and then grab it with their strong forelegs (munch, much).
Praying Mantid Poll
As a homeschooling project one year, our family purchased a Praying Mantid (Mantis) egg sack. It was just thrilling to watch all those tiny bugs come into the world! SO many babies come out of one egg sack! It has been a while, so I am going to get more egg sacks this year. I can't wait! If you home-school children, teach, have kids, or have grandchildren, consider delighting them with one of nature's true miracles!
Good Bugs for Your Garden Books
Good Bug, Bad Bug: Who's Who, What They Do, and How to Manage Them Organically (All You Need to Know about the Insects in Your Garden) by Jessica Walliser
Good Bug, Bad Bug lets you quickly identify the most common invasive and beneficial insects (and other tiny critters) in your garden, and gives the best organic advice on how to attract the good guys and manage the bad guyswithout reaching for the toxic chemicals. Garden expert Jessica Walliser also offers strategies for dealing with the new bugs in town, those worrisome strangers that are starting to show up as a result of climate change. Thirty-six bugs, presented in full color on laminated st...1 point
Gardening with Good Bugs by Erin W. Hodgson
Aiding readers in distinguishing between bugs that are beneficial to a garden's health and those that are harmful and disruptive, this guidebook will help gardeners reduce and eliminate insects without using chemical pesticides. With expert horticulture tips-from cultivating plants that attract helpful bugs to discovering common cures that ward off destructive insects-this resource teaches how to use nature to nurture a garden. Detailed illustrations on dozens of the most common b...1 point
The Gardener's Bug Book: Earth-Safe Insect Control by Barbara Pleasant
This completely revised and updated garden guide shows how to identify and control more than 70 common garden insects using the best homemade and commercial control strategies.1 point
Bugs, Slugs & Other Invaders: 50 Ways to Beat Garden Enemies by Sarah Ford
Gardeners who loved 50 Ways to Kill a Slug -which has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide-will welcome this equally practical and wildly funny follow-up. It promises to save plants and banish bad bugs from the backyard with 100 organic, chemical, and simply silly ways to wreak revenge on even the smallest pests. For example, did you know that ants don't like lemon, salt, Vaseline, or cinnamon? That those pesky fruit flies hate basil? Learn how to attract the good creepy-crawlies, including l...1 point
The Prairie Gardener's Book of Bugs: A Guide to Living with Common Garden Insects by Ruth Staal, Nora Bryan
With skill, insight, and humour, authors Ruth Staal and Nora Bryan encourage gardeners to stop worrying about bugs, and instead be delighted by them and learn more about their fascinating ways.0 points
Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs (Princeton Field Guides) by Whitney Cranshaw
Garden Insects of North America is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide to the common insects and mites affecting yard and garden plants in North America. In a manner no previous book has come close to achieving, through full-color photos and concise, clear, scientifically accurate text, it describes the vast majority of species associated with shade trees and shrubs, turfgrass, flowers and ornamental plants, vegetables, and fruits--1,420 of them, including crickets, katydids, fruit f....0 points
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Please Leave a Note!
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Einar_A
Apr 21, 2012 @ 8:39 pm | delete
- Lots of good information here. I always like seeing ladybugs and lacewings show up in the garden to hunt aphids, but have never ordered them.
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clouda9
Mar 15, 2012 @ 5:58 pm | delete
- Love ladybugs and had hardly a problem in our garden the year we bought bags of the lovely little critters from the farm & garden store. *Blessed today
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vallain Apr 14, 2011 @ 11:11 pm | delete
- Quite a nice selection of beneficial insects. I've blessed it and will add it to the Best Insect Web Pages on Squidoo.
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VickiSims
Apr 1, 2011 @ 3:53 pm | delete
- Aren't insects fascinating? Lots of great info on some of the most beneficial. Blessed by a Squid Angel
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nightcats
Feb 14, 2011 @ 11:10 pm | delete
- I have no garden, but if I did, I would most certainly try out some good bugs. Thanks for the wonderful lens.
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Swisstoons
Sep 30, 2010 @ 6:27 pm | delete
- My mother was into organic gardening and subscribed to a magazine by that name published by Radale Press. When I would stop by to visit (and to pick up my allotment of organically grown vegetables), I used to page through those mags. Though I never got into gardening, myself, I used to enjoy the very informative articles. And I do remember all the adds in the back for ladybugs, worms and praying mantises (manti?). Thanks for taking me back with this informative lens!
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AngEngland
Aug 14, 2009 @ 10:37 pm | delete
- Great lens. I LOVE to watch praying mantises catching their prey. My mother-in-law brings one or two in the house on warm summer days and puts them in her windowsill to catch any stray flies that get in. SO entertaining.
Angela <>
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Beneficial Nematodes!
Kills Over 200 different species of soil dwelling and wood boring insects.
10 Million Live Beneficial Nematodes Hb - Soil Pest Exterminator
Amazon Price: $24.99 (as of 05/26/2012)
Attacks: Weevils; Beetle grubs; Japanese beetle; Masked chaffers; May/June beetles; Black vine weevil; various white grubs; Banana weevil; Bill bug; Colorado Potato beetle; Cucumber beetle; Sweetpotato weevil; Asparagus beetle; Carrot weevil; Banana moth; Citrus root weevil group; Sugarcane stalk borer; Various tree and vine borers; Bagworms; Flea beetle; Fleas and over 200 other species.
* Beneficial Nematodes are an organic, safe, and effective way to battle soil pests.
* Easy to apply and Harmless to humans and pets.
* These Live Beneficial Nematodes are Guaranteed Fresh and Alive!
* 10 million Nematodes are enough to cover 3,000 - 4,000 sq.ft lawn.
Green Lacewing 1000 Eggs - Good Bugs that Get Rid of Aphids
Pretty too!
Green Lacewing 1000 Eggs - Good Bugs - Aphid Exterminator
Amazon Price: $10.99 (as of 05/26/2012)
* 1000 Live Green Lacewing Eggs - A Great General Pest Predator!
* Each green lacewing larvae will kill up to 600 aphids in their larvae stage!
* Green Lacewings will not harm ladybugs, so you can use these two good bugs together to protect your plants.
* Guaranteed Live Delivery!
Calling all Ladybugs! A Ladybug Lure!
Springstar Lady Bug Lure S702
Amazon Price: $4.75 (as of 05/26/2012)
This is just so great.
* Acts like a magnet that attractss lady bugs, lacewings and other beneficial insects to the garden!
* Order one lure per each square yard of infested plant life, or one lure for each rose bush or shrub
* Starts immediately and control is seen within one week
* Natural!
