Texas Gardening: I need ladybugs!, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Oh yes Mary, I have had lots of ladybug larvae too! I started with the ladybugs on my sunflower, then found the eggs so I kept watching and soon I had little alligators swarming the plant. I even moved some of them around to milkweed and dill.

They've all pupated now and most have spread around or left. Hopefully they layed more eggs first! I had a batch on a piece of dill recently so I put them in a container and watched them. They hatched out all at the same time and were so tiny that I had to use my good magnifying glass to see them and still had a hard time seeing them. They were yellowish/white when they first hatched so it was hard to see what the were. They soon turned dark and stayed on their eggs for a while then when they started moving I put them in the cage with cats and dill. It was interesting.

I tried to take some pics but they were too small. You might can see a little in this one.