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Post by plocket on Mar 27, 2007 17:53:56 GMT 1
LP found a black ladybird with red spots in the garden this afternoon - should I be worried? How am I supposed to tell a good ladybird from a nasty one?
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Post by The witch on Mar 27, 2007 18:04:26 GMT 1
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Post by plocket on Mar 27, 2007 18:16:40 GMT 1
Phew! I'll stop worrying about perhaps squashing her new pet!!!!! Not that she knows where it is at the moment - somewhere in the garden!!! ;D
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Post by Sleepy on Mar 27, 2007 18:45:21 GMT 1
LP found a black ladybird with red spots in the garden this afternoon - should I be worried? How am I supposed to tell a good ladybird from a nasty one? There are no nasty ladybirds for the gardener. There is a big one that is supposed to be usurping our regular, but all varieties are good. |
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Post by plocket on Mar 27, 2007 18:46:36 GMT 1
I thought the harlequin one was supposed to bring fear and dread to us coz it was destroying our natives?
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Post by Sleepy on Mar 27, 2007 18:48:20 GMT 1
Errr... thats what I said, didn't I?
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Post by plocket on Mar 27, 2007 19:02:53 GMT 1
Well you said that all varieties were good - which means that the harlequin is too. I don't think the harlequin sounds like a good thing!! ;D
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Post by Sleepy on Mar 27, 2007 19:24:20 GMT 1
The harlequin is good from a gardening perspective in that it still eats the baddies. It's to our common ladybirds it's not so good.
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Post by The witch on Mar 27, 2007 22:25:18 GMT 1
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Post by plocket on Mar 28, 2007 8:25:09 GMT 1
Oh dear!
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Post by sweetleaf on Mar 28, 2007 8:41:16 GMT 1
Look for the white spot on the head then, and if it has one its a harlequin, I dont want a lacewing eater in my garden or on my plot, ideally.  |
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Post by plocket on Mar 28, 2007 9:17:13 GMT 1
I don't want one in my garden either  |
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