To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Clove currant ribes aureum
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 15:04:17 -0400
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