Arbico Organics Live Ladybugs
No one likes to spray chemicals on their beautiful vegetable garden that holds ingestible food, yet many gardeners feel pressured by chewed-up leaves, desecrated produce and unsightly pests lingering around the crops. Today more and more gardeners are choosing more earth-friendly methods of pest control. One solution is to introduce live ladybugs to your garden. They’re not interested in what you’ve got going on, but they will be intensely interested in the predatory bugs floating around. Ladybugs love to eat nasty aphids, beetles, weevils and mites!
When you order your live ladybugs, you will receive a UPS shipment of adult stage insects. Within 8-10 days of their release, each female ladybug will lay 10 to 50 eggs beneath leaves in your yard. In just 2 to 5 days, dark flight-less creatures with orange spots will emerge, ready to feast upon 50 to 60 aphids per day. After 21 days, they pupate and the prettier adult ladybugs come out in 2 to 5 days, hungry and ready to consume 5,000 aphids each! Arbico Organics ships their ladybugs Monday through Wednesday, with orders going out next-day. Since some ladybugs may perish during transport, extra ones are sent with each order. Ladybugs prefer temperatures from 61 to 82 degrees. If necessary, you may store adults for 1 to 3 weeks at 35 to 45 degrees before releasing them into the world to propagate.
Catalina Mountains-based Arbico, which stands for Arizona Biological Control Inc., has been operating for over 30 years under the premise that we can have beautiful, productive gardens naturally, without the use of chemical pesticides. “Bug-Man” Rick Frey began raising live ladybugs, praying mantis, green lacewing, moth egg parasites and beneficial nematodes to combat gardens infested by destructive and unsightly pests. Additionally, www.arbico-organics.com provides visitors with advice on fertilizer and soil care, as well as fly and weed control.
All the reviews over at www.davesgarden.com for Arbico Organics live ladybugs have been positive. One lady called Arbico for a grub problem solution and said, “Not only did Arbico solve my fly problem with their fly parasites, but they also have great trap for adult flies! They were very nice on the phone and they knew exactly what I needed.” Another reviewer comments that the beneficial nematodes “worked great” and added, “I am so pleased, I can’t recommend Arbico enough!” One customer asked about potato-eating blister beetles and mentioned being “connected with Arbico’s head entomologist,” who provided very helpful information. Another buyer said, “The lady who took my order was very nice and helpful. The box came much faster than expected, and their price was the best I could find.”
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