Posts Tagged: ladybug
Sex Amid the Artichokes
What the world needs now is "love, sweet love" and...more ladybugs.Ladybeetles are our friends. They gobble up aphids and other pests in our garden,...
Ladybugs
Same Ladybugs
Beneath a Leaf
An Aphid-Kind of Day
It was an aphid-kind of day. When a ladybug landed on a gaura in our bee friendly garden, it was business as usual. The business: eating aphids.The...
Tower of Aphids
Eye to Eye
Crunch Time
'The Ladybug Shrub'
Our Artemisia, a silvery-leafed shrub bordering our bee friendly garden, looks quite orange and black these days.It's not for lack of water or some...
Ladybug
Larval Stage
Pupa
Ladybug and a Pupa
The Ladybug and the Bee
It's not often you see a ladybug and a honey bee sharing the same plant.The ladybug, a predator in disguise, devours aphids like a kid does M&Ms....
Ladybug
Two's Company
Together
What's Bugging the Ladybug?
It probably bugs her but it doesn't kill her. But why? An entomologist at the University of Montreal is investigating why parasitic wasps...
Ladybug
Close-up
Searching for More Aphids