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  • From: "Erdman, Jim" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] asian lady bugs / was:autumn Olive allelopathy?
  • Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 07:48:24 -0500

Around here, by the time the Asian lady beetles/bugs show up, the potato
beetle larvae are long gone, so I haven't witnessed them eating any larvae.
I have seen them eating the flesh out of apples--most apples with any kind of
skin damage are getting serious lady beetle damage, once thy get in through
the skin they devour the flesh of the apples and other fruit. So, I can
imagine that they are eating figs, too. Mostly apples here, because the
beetles haven't been very populous the last few years until early fall, and
apples are the only thing left that they can damage.

Jim Erdman, Menomonie, WI

road's end farm [mailto:organic101@linkny.com] wrote:


On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 11:44 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> In this 1984 scenario lets not forget the clouds of asian lady bugs
> swarming everywhere right now. They bite like a sand fly & I notice
> they love to nibble on the figs. Hard pressed to think of uses for
> them but I would imagine chinese pharmacy has many age old uses for
> them.
>

They eat Colorado potato beetle larvae.

Are you sure that they're eating the figs, rather than eating
something
else that's eating the figs?

--Rivka


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