I wish they would eat more ladybugs. We have a plague of not-quite-ladybugs and they are everywhere. It worries me because it probably means some other part of the ecosystem is dead -- maybe the frogs or something that kept them under control.
ladybugs are good -- they eat aphids and other pests. No idea what ‘not quite ladybug’ means. And ladybird synchronicity: I’m reading The Beggar King, and the hangman, Jakob Kuisl, is being horribly tortured, and in the last torture scene, he keeps singing that very, very old song, “ladybird, ladybird, fly on home, your house is on fire…”
Marcus Ranum says
I wish they would eat more ladybugs. We have a plague of not-quite-ladybugs and they are everywhere. It worries me because it probably means some other part of the ecosystem is dead -- maybe the frogs or something that kept them under control.
Caine says
ladybugs are good -- they eat aphids and other pests. No idea what ‘not quite ladybug’ means. And ladybird synchronicity: I’m reading The Beggar King, and the hangman, Jakob Kuisl, is being horribly tortured, and in the last torture scene, he keeps singing that very, very old song, “ladybird, ladybird, fly on home, your house is on fire…”
Caine says
If by chance you mean Box Elder bugs, they come in one size only, a fucktonne, and they are rarely eaten by anything, including spiders.