Ladybug on my plant!

Alright so I just got back from lowes and opened my veg room to find a lady bug chilling on my plant. I'm in New England and it has been a lil unseasonably warm the past 2 days but I didn't know enough to bring ladybug on my plant. Unless you say otherwise, Ill take it as good luck.

They eat other pests on your plants. When I grow outdoors. I place ladybugs on my plants to kill off other bugs.

Sure do!! I had to order a few when I had damn spider mites around 5 years or so back!! They tore them spider mites a new asshole!!

WORD?! im bout to go buy like 100 lady bugs! lol

bigbull52 said:

WORD?! im bout to go buy like 100 lady bugs! lol

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yup, they do. but then you need to get rid of the bettle infestion, and to do that you need praying mantis -_-

i found a stink bug in my grow box this morning..id rather a lady beetle

Nengeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Guess again Leroy....
You can never have too many Lady Bugs....
I used to buy them at HD every year, until they quit selling them....
Lady Bugs eat bugs...
What could be finer...

Hope & pray u get few more

Kybudz said:

Hope & pray u get few more

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Will do! Its getting cold again so I can only hope.

honestly ladies bugs have never worked for me, 10+ years. they only eat spider mites as a secondary option, and eggs are even lower on the food chain. plus those little bastards hide in your soil(if thats what your doing), so a systemic mite killer may be the best option. only thing thats ever been 100% successfull for me is neem/karanja oil mix with yucca extracts, a newer product called sns 217, and something thats new to me, quantum apocalypse from entomo419.com. if you feed your soil neem, your gonna need to add some kind of beneficial microbes back in after. as far as mites go, start from seed/clone and assume they always have them. good prevention techniques will save your behind a lot and you wont ever know .. ive wasted lots of money in this war, but i(we) will win[h=1][/h]

mushead said:

honestly ladies bugs have never worked for me, 10+ years. they only eat spider mites as a secondary option, and eggs are even lower on the food chain. plus those little bastards hide in your soil(if thats what your doing), so a systemic mite killer may be the best option. only thing thats ever been 100% successfull for me is neem/karanja oil mix with yucca extracts, a newer product called sns 217, and something thats new to me, quantum apocalypse from entomo419.com. if you feed your soil neem, your gonna need to add some kind of beneficial microbes back in after. as far as mites go, start from seed/clone and assume they always have them. good prevention techniques will save your behind a lot and you wont ever know .. ive wasted lots of money in this war, but i(we) will win

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Nice, thanks for sharing that, very good to know

if they work for you thats awesome though, after a few failed early grows because of mites, i never used lady bugs again. knock on wood, i cant remember a recent year that they've come back, prevention is key. now if you get some aphids, lady bugs are gonna destroy them, they love them over mites any day. predator mites work well too, make sure you get at least two kinds, hopefully all 3. they all thrive in defferent inviroments, so look into it some if you go that route.