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[Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net>]

On Jun 4, 2011, at 2:55 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> If only I could figure out how to get the 1000s of lady beetles in  
> my bath
> room & on the sides of the house out onto my plants.


Scoop them gently off into any available container and carry them out  
there?

Ladybugs aren't all that hard to move.

One year I had a problem with aphids on some sweet peppers that I was  
growing under row cover until fruit had set, because I wanted to save  
seed from them and didn't want them to crosspollinate with other  
varieties. So I caught a few ladybugs and put them under the row  
cover. Problem solved.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale