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Tir_Na_Nog Houston, United States(Zone 9b) Feb 24, 2006

My local Home Depot has good garden insects for sale: Praying Mantis (200 babies in 1 unhatched egg case) and Live Lady Bugs (1/3rd cup about 1500 count) that are each about $4.00. These will protect your roses, flowers, shrubs, gardens and trees. The Mantis eat Aphids, Thrips, Whitefly, Mosquitoes, Flies, Grubs and other harmful plant pests. The Lady Bugs will eat almost the same diet.

They also have Live Nematodes but these rang up for about $12 (contains approximately 5 million)!!! These will protect your lawns and gardens from Japanese Beetles, May/June Beetles, Grubs, Borers, Strawberry Root Weevil and Flea Beetles.

My only question I guess for this thread is: How many years of putting these helpful insects out on about a 1/4 acre lot do you suppose before you would not have to add them anymore, but that they would replenish themselves in the area????

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