NaturesGoodGuys - Live Ladybugs -150 Live Ladybugs

Lovely little creatures....they went to work on aphids in my grow tent.

All are alive and already working. Had some thirp issues. Yes I released in my house gotta protect my investment. Lady bugs work great for pests.

I am overwintering about a dozen pepper plants and despite my best efforts they brought an infestation of aphids inside with them. I released these little friends into a netted box with my peppers and within a week my plants were looking much happier. If any survive the winter I'll return them to the garden this spring.

Central Texas is just being overrun by aphids right now. Something about the long, hot, dry summer or whatever. My crape myrtle and elm trees are acting like it's autumn in September, but they shouldn't be losing their leaves for another 2-3 months. Enter the ladybugs. They were delivered on a hot day, right on time, so I was able to quickly grab them off the porch. Packed in a ventilated cardboard box, with lots of great educational and instructional materials. The beetles themselves were well contained within a cinched cotton bag, filled with shredded paper or wood shavings or something, to keep things loose and airy for the 9,000 occupants of this cross-country journey. I followed the instructions and kept them in the refrigerator until I could spend the time releasing them. Over the next several days, I misted my infested trees with the hose to provide some refreshment to the dormant and no-doubt-dehydrated little soldiers. In one instance, I soaked a paper towel and released them onto that at the base of a tree. But for the most part, I just opened the bag a bit and hung it along the trunk of a tree for 10 minutes or so, as the bugs warmed up and began marching out in droves to explore their new surroundings. Indeed, they gathered immediately at the closest water source before continuing on their assassination mission. I worried that, as many reviewers share, they would simply fly away upon release. But none of them took to the skies while I observed them. They mostly just crawled out into the trees, sipped some water, and then got right to work hunting down the plentiful aphids. My kids loved wrangling them and letting the tickly insects crawl along their hands and arms. I continued this routine each day, sometimes in the morning, sometimes evening, until all of the live beetles were on their way. I say "live beetles," because yes, a whole lot of them were dead on arrival. I didn't count them or anything, but I would estimate maybe 50% survival when they got to me. I poured out a whole bunch of dead bugs on that first day, and after all was said and done, I still had a satchel full of desiccated beetle bodies. I ordered 9,000 of them, so I feel like even half that number alive should make a decent impact and [hopefully] multiply in number from there. It must also be said, though, that I'm a bit skeptical of the 9,000 number to begin with. Again, I ain't counting them one by one, but I can't imagine that I watched more than a few hundred at a time crawl out of that bag during each of my releases, no doubt adding up to a few thousand—but surely not nine thousand. In any event, I'm satisfied. And now several days removed from the last batch, I've been checking on their status around the yard, and while the trees aren't humming with little red ladybugs—and I do still have honeydew spots on my cars in the morning—I can identify ladybugs doing their jobs today in each of those trees. So at least some of them did stick around, didn't get eaten by lizards (yet), and are doing their best to munch those sticky tree pests. Hopefully their numbers will soon swell to overtake the aphid army and bring an end to this obnoxious infestation...for now.

Beautiful bugs, delivered on time and all alive. Super happy!! Have purchased multiple times from this shop and have been super happy each time.

I have been waiting to purchase these to try to help me with mealy bugs and aphids. Most were dead on arrival. Popped them right in the fridge but most were dead already. Maybe it was still too hot to order already? But that didn’t seem to matter as most were dead I doubt they made the trip in two days. I Did what the directions stated before their release in the evening. But by morning I only saw 1 alive and I put it directly on a sunflower that had aphids, and it seemed to walk right past them and not bother. I tried placing it multiple times and the aphids just kept hiding and the ladybug was not bothering. Even if the majority had survived I don’t think they even knew what to do. And they would try to crawl up the stem of a sunflower and fall down.

My ladybugs just arrived safe and sound. There were a handful that didn’t survive transport which is to be expected. The remaining ones were active and immediately started climbing around in my plants in the greenhouse.

1/3 were dead. They arrived in 10 days. They were well packaged. The bag definitely didnt look like 150 count.