Ladybirds in trouble !

[Dave H]

Not those one's chesters you can still go and get those one's....

 

It seems that the wet summers we keep having and/or cold one's are killing off our ladybirds due to the lack of their food being produced.

 

If these conditions stay now which i think they are already 4 years in the making i see many changes in the animal kingdom be it mammal or insect.

Edited June 17, 2013 by Dave H

[chesters1]

Theres always been many changes ,there will be many more but going by my roses its lazyness to eat not lack of food

Edited June 17, 2013 by chesters1

[Dave H]

Theres always been many changes ,there will be many more but going by my roses its lazyness to eat not lack of food

Good point although it gets to a point where in balance starts to creep in and there just isn't enough to eat off your roses that's when nature goes 'Tits up' as we say in these parts .

 

It could be curtains for your roses Chesters!

Edited June 18, 2013 by Dave H

[chesters1]

I remember years of to many lady birds these meagre years of ladybirds is the swing going the opposite way

[Si...]

There was thousands of them round here last year, couldn't look anywhere without seeing at least one of the damn things lol

[Phone]

Chesters1,

 

They are $25,00 pint. (no idea how many in a pint(?)). Each Ladybird will eat 1000 aphids a day. I'd think a man of your means - - -

 

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[Steve Walker]

One warm day last spring I stood in my garden and counted over 30 of them.

[chesters1]

A man of my means has no american money at all ,and certainly wouldnt spend it on things that are known to bite ,in my garden its the survival of the fittest and it applies to critters ,bugs and plants

[Leon Roskilly]

There was thousands of them round here last year, couldn't look anywhere without seeing at least one of the damn things lol

 

Problem is that most of them would probably be Harlequins

[Phone]

All,

 

What Leon was trying to say (and maybe did, I just missed it) is that Harlequins are an invasive alien species new to Britain (2004). Predicted to spread rapidly. Outcompetes other ladybird species and is a major threat to them, the natives, and some other insect groups in the UK.

 

Harlequin ladybirds are the carp of ladybirds.

 

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