Yeah these aphids are pretty huge to me. They are usually pretty small. Since we both just moved to Oregon, South of Seattle, Washington, we have a whole bunch of new bugs to discover and learn about.

Ladybugs are great for cleaning up your garden from aphids the natural way. Or you could squish'm. BUt yeah ladybugs are amazing at helping out with gardening.

ladybugs are pretty amazing. they help me with my garden too.

In Britain, ladybugs are called ladybirds. Just thought you might be interested.

I would think "ladybird" would be kind of redundant in Britian.

Haha!

Mine drives a golf cart!





That looks like a Hummer.

Thanks!

Did they completely ruin your plants or was it just to overwhelming to doing anything about it? That sucks. Maybe next time you could just buy a whole bunch of lady bugs and unleash them in the room. They'd go to town on those aphids. But then you're left witha room full of lady bugs, which could be cute but annoying when you are trying to sleep.

Kamala tried soapy water before at the old place and that sorta worked. But they come back. I guess either way they're gonna come back. Ladybugs. If you were to introduce them to your garden (meaning you went and bought a few hundred and set them free) i wonder how many would stick around. Or would they be like, "Screw this guy man, he just paid how much for our freedom? Sucker! I'm outta here." And if they did stick around, would they keep stickin' around after they ate all the aphids? We don't have a greenhouse so there isn't a way to contain the ladybirds. We'll just have to try it out.

Also what do you mean with the spiders. What do the spiders do? Or do you mean Spider-mites? Spider Mites suck.

I like how towards the end of your long paragraph above you inadvertantley use the word ladybirds instead of ladybugs. You are gradually turning English.

The spiders hang around all over and are scary. Theoretically they can bite you, but I've only been bitten once or twice. They seriously put their webs EVERYWHERE.

How much do ladybugs cost?

I'd pay extra for ladybirds if they came with cute accents.

@ SteveR - shall we have tea? ;P

@ dalas - We have spiders hanging out all over our car. I like spiders. Kamala doesn't as much as me. Just as long as they don't bother us at night.

@ duplo - at this one online store you can get 1,500 of em for like $6 or 72,000 for about $70. Not bad, I think. Not sure about the cute accents.

@ the aphids - look out! we're gonna gitcha!

At night is when they drop down onto your face. Seriously, they have done that to us several times.

that gives me an idea for a series...