Ladybirds are excellent natural garden predators and beneficial to any garden, a real gardeners friend. Reducing chemical use in the garden! Beneficial Insects like Ladybird (which eat aphids, scale insects, mealy bugs and spider mites) can be encouraged using this food/attractant into a garden area or Natural Predator Box.
- Other important factors to provide an attractive environment are sheltered conditions, ground cover, foliage and organic matter and non use of insecticides.
- Plant preferences for Ladybirds: Nettles (Urica dioica) Angelica and Dill
- Site: Sheltered site close to tree branches or vegetation
- Set up time: From early Spring onward
- Preparation: Food will last up to four months; keep cool and dry and mix a small amount with a drop of water in a saucer and smear on feed area or onto Predator Box feed hole or surfaces
- Ladybird food is non toxic and not harmful to the environment Formulated by Specialists. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN
One Ladybird may eat over 4000 Aphids in its life.
- 5 gram sachet