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Last post 06-07-2009 9:04 AM by Kesira. 37 replies.

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  • 02/07/2009 09:35 PM
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    • Rosa
    • West Sussex
    • 26 Jun 2009
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    We've had the usual sudden rush of blackfly but nothing abnormal, plus I noticed quite a few ladybirds yesterday marching determindely up the runner beans!  I notice that many of you with the invasions are in Nottinghamshire, East Anglia and generally the Midlands.  Is this significant, do you think?

    I didn't know you could get lacewings by post - I will try that as I don't see so many of those about these days and I believe their larvae are even more voracious than ladybirds.  

  • 02/07/2009 09:39 PM
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    • 06 Jan 2007
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     I've got lots of aphids and I live on the south coast - I think the recent warm weather is partly to blame.

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  • 02/07/2009 10:00 PM
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    • miranda
    • Oxfordshire
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    'I notice that many of you with the invasions are in Nottinghamshire, East Anglia and generally the Midlands.  Is this significant, do you think?'

    We had clouds of aphids a week or so ago and there are still a lot about, though now that the ladybirds have finally turned up it's a lot better. I'm in north west Oxfordshire, by the way - sometimes described as south midlands and sometimes as south east England. 

     
  • 02/07/2009 10:25 PM
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    • sue1002
    • Ipswich, Suffolk
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     I'm in East Anglia and we still don't have many more than we've had in the past.  There's plenty of ladybird larvae feeding on the ones that we do have.

    sue1002
  • 02/07/2009 10:33 PM
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    Thanks for the photos Phot's Moll I've not seen these young ladybird larva before - they do look like a garden pest, and there are so many different types of them. Well I hope they visit my garden in the East Midlands! Cheers

    Richard
  • 02/07/2009 11:31 PM
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    • Digger
    • Northern UK
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    I wanted to buy some baby ladybugs for the garden and some lacewings but OH wouldn't let have any!.

    digger Devil
  • 04/07/2009 06:21 PM
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     Hopefully you'll soon get some anyway, Digger.

    Has anyone tried using lacewing 'hotels'? They're just bits of hollow stems bound together, sometimes with a fancy frame - I'm going to make some.

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  • 06/07/2009 09:04 AM
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    • Kesira
    • Elkesley, Nottinghamshire
    • 15 Jun 2009
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     My Mother in law gave me a lacewing and ladybird box at christmas.  Just looks like a fancy bird box, it's actually very pretty.  I have no idea though how to tell if anything is there though.  Althogh I ave seen spiderwebs.  Do you think i should keep removing those?  Update on the greenfly though, lots of the parasitic wasps have turned up in the past week.  yay!

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