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Ladybugs - A Beneficial Insect in Your Organic Garden By John Yazo
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| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 |
Many people, especially children who are attracted to the color and ladybugs that place. They are beneficial insects in the garden because there is appetite for other insects such as aphids.
Beneficial insects as the main form of management control of pests in the garden that is used by all types of growers, from the home gardener, greenhouse grower to professional garden. He is one of the oldest and most successful method of pest control. They have a natural instinct to hunt and consume unwanted pests in the garden and is not harmful to humans, plants, animals and the environment.
There are about five thousand different kinds of ladybugs, also know as lady beetles, and not all of them have the same desire. Mexican Bean Beetle and the Squash Beetle is part of the family ladybug. They plant eaters and can damage the park, especially for crops such as beans majority ladybug is not a family that will only kill the insects.
Ladybugs remove a fluid from the joints of the feet have a sense of decay and make it unappealing to predators. Ladybug feel threatened when the dead and will play out this unpleasant liquids to sustain themselves from predators.
A ladybug will lay the mass of small yellow elongated egg shape. They were placed on the plant leaves and hatch in three to seven days. Eggs, which then became a six-legged larva eats and sheds the skin several times because of growth. This stage to take place for four months. After the larva to reach full size will attach itself to the plant stem or leaf by it's tail. Skin and exposing the larva Splits cocoon. Cocoon that is about the size of adults but wrapped up for protection while it goes undergoes metamorphosis to the adult stage.
Ladybug life span of about two to three years.
Living a healthy environment and how to garden. Organic gardening from the garden that is in harmony with nature. The growth of a healthy and productive plants in a way that's healthy for both you and the environment.
John Yazo
http://www.organicheirloomgardening.com |
posted by neptunus @ 5:42 PM
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