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  • From: "Don Titmus" <ujgs2@4dirs.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] does squishing aphids attract aphid predators
  • Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 18:46:19 -0700

Well your correct the adults do eat aphids but not like the juv. so i vote to use the best tool for the job ...buy the juv not the adults.


----- Original Message ----- From: "paul wheaton" <paul@richsoil.com>
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] does squishing aphids attract aphid predators


Re Lady bugs(birds) - adults dont eat aphids only the juvenile stage...dont
buy adults for this year's use.

How certain of this are you?

I have herd that the larva eat *more* than the adults, but that the
adults still eat quite a few. Further, I have seen pictures of
ladybugs eating aphids. Perhaps the photo had more to do with an
argument between the two entities rather than somebody's nutritional
needs? :)
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