Today, I went and checked on each of my brugs and found a ladybug on top of brug.
Ladybug on Brug
Cute ladybug
Yes I hope so!!! When I saw ladybug on my brugs. I said YES and you need to stay where you are! LOL..
Am I the only one who has carried a ladybug half way across the garden to put it on the brugs? They're a good thing.
LOL. I also have a garter snake - I think he's more afraid of me than I am of him. He's a good thing too - eats slugs.
Tonny, APHIS probably requires a permit to move a ladybug.....
CC, LOL LOL We need a larvae, who could swallow APHIS too lol or maybe just a fewe of their rules ... I could takwe a vacatrion to the US and move around with it and teach it not to swallow the good rules, of cause lol
Liz, what is a Garther Snake? I like what it eat ... would a such snake live in Denmark?
I'm always happy to see the lady bugs. Lace wings are good too, they eat more aphids than even lady bugs. I wish I had a garter snake in the Jungle House. We have the blue skinks that eat ants, but haven't seen a snake in there. I have garter snakes here at home and accidentaly gave Trish one in a flat of flowers.
I'll keep the bugs, you keep the snakes.......had four of them in the greenhouse this spring and almost had heart failure.....
Glory
May 25, 2002
Shirley,
LOL....sounds like you don't even like snakes. We have a large Black snake that lives under the rocks by the pond...he keeps the frogs down to a million or so.
Brugie, I know what you mean about the snakes, about a month ago I was cleaning around a pot in the yard and reached down to pick up a "stick", wrong it was a pigmy rattler. Like a kid I called my mom, who shoots them, and asked her what to do. Since I don't use a gun she to me to use the hoe. I laid the phone down and chopped that sucker. When I was done she wanted to know if there was anything left, she heard the chopping, lol. They are poisonous but not deadly. They look like rattlesnakes but are only about the size of a small twig. I would rather have the lady bugs!!
Oh gosh, I've got chills all over again. You are right Glory, I can't handle snakes. Jim keeps telling me that they are good for us. Eat mice, bugs, etc. However, if he isn't around, I'm like you Dee.......I get the hoe, shovel, or whatever is handy. Mincemeat!!
You got Brugie, nasty, nasty things. Yes I know, some of them are beneficial, but they can just keep themselves hidden from view and we will get along just fine. Ya know, why did I move out in the woods. Snakes, deer, critters, always eating something, can't we all just get along!!
The critters don't know how to share.....that's the whole problem. I'm not looking forward to the black and yellow beetle that eats my brug blooms. They are the same ones that eat the tops off the asparagus, but the DE really worked on them. Have only found two of them in the last few weeks and I get to eat ALL of the asparagus. Will be using that DE in the pots and around the brugs in the ground.
Tonny, try it with Blindschleiche or Ringelnatter. A Hedge hog (Igel) will help and Erdkröten. We have all of them in and around our garden, but too much snails to eat.
I have to use Schneckenkorn, if I want to see flowers on my Brugs. Last year, there were so many, they crawled up our house and GH walls. My friends from the Landfrauenverein left their veggie garden bare. The snails ate every new planted veg.
Two years ago, I catched about 2600 snails in beer traps within 6 weeks. Unbelievable, but true, as I counted them every day. Since then, Schneckenkorn (Mesurol) is the only thing, that really helps.