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The demand for ladybugs has increased in the market since they are helping with controlling pest and you can find ladybugs for sale in every gardening store.

Also known as ladybirds or lady beetles, ladybugs are the best friends of a gardener. The bright coloring of ladybug brings liveliness to your garden.

Ladybugs which have reached the adulthood are domed or oval shaped. They have yellow or red wings or even various shades of different colors. The numerous black spots on its body vary from no spot to more than 10 spots.

The temperature, food supply and humidity play a major role in the ladybug life cycle. It takes three to four weeks for the ladybug to become an adult from the egg. In spring time it can go up till six weeks. During spring the female lady bug lay in an aphid colony up to three hundred eggs. It takes two to six days for the eggs to hatch.

Ladybugs are very popular around the globe. They are believed to bring superior luck and also have a great aptitude to eat aphids or plant lice which destructs plants. A single ladybug can consume 50 to 65 aphids in 24 hrs. Aphids are herbivores which is one of the most awful pests on vegetation. They are also notorious for spreading diseases on plants. Other than aphids, ladybugs have other insects like bugs and white flies.

Planting plants which attract ladybugs is one way of attracting ladybugs for sale. If there is no space for planting such plants in your garden, you can buy them from website or nurseries. Here are few tips which will help you in releasing ladybugs into your garden.

• It will be best to release ladybugs after dusk or before dawn. You should release them near to the infested plants.
• Water the garden before releasing the ladybugs. The moisture will help ladybugs to glue on the plants and eat the aphids.
• If you are releasing them in summer, keep them inside the refrigerator for some time and chill them. Ladybugs prefer cold atmosphere than hot summers.

Ladybug habitation boxes are another way of attracting ladybugs. Place them all over your garden. The habitation boxes should contain organic materials like compost or peat. This will help ladybugs to settle and leave eggs. The boxes should also protect them from winter.

To increase the population and breeding of ladybugs in your garden, you cut down the use of insecticides in your backyard. Pesticides kill ladybugs and also spoil their food resource. They can’t lay eggs and eventually cease to populate.

Some ladybug facts:

• 5000 types of ladybugs exist in North America.
• A feminine ladybug can produce beyond 1000 eggs during her life cycle.
• It can beat its wing 85 times per second.
• 71,000 to 80,000 ladybugs can be kept in a gallon jar.
• Ladybugs produce a chemical which has a terrible smell and taste which keeps birds and new predators at bay.

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