Posted on 04/25/2013 7:33:32 PM PDT by Daffynition
What sounds like an April Fools’ Day prank was actually intentional -- the Mall of America celebrated Earth Day on Monday by voluntarily releasing 72,000 ladybugs into its indoor shopping facility.
The ladybugs were released in the Minneapolis mall in an effort to protect the large amounts of the mall's greenery, which are usually plagued by aphids.
Mall of America Senior Manager of Environmental Services Lydell Newby told Kare 11 that the bugs take the place of commonly used pesticides to control pests that would otherwise eat away at the mall's tropical plants.
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They moved on to our and our uncle’s place above Cumberland!
They are the most beautiful of all the beetle bugs.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef416.asp
This article tells most everything needed to know about the asian lady beetles.
Sorry for your uncle’s luck but yay for me!
LOL
[think he’d want our stink bug plague, too?]
I’ve actually felt bad for the ladybugs I see in stores. They always seem to be 90% dead before anyone buys them. I’ve actually thought of buying some just so they dont end up starving to death in aisle 10 of the nursery
I wish there was something you could buy to get rid of those stupid gnats that hang out in every shady spot in your yard.
In the last couple days literally we have seen a couple pix of bluebirds after stink bugs.
I’m hoping indeed stinkers have found their match with the benefit of helping repopulate the rare and declining bluebird.
Another! Thanks!
There is hope, both ways!
Oh, Lord, let it be so.
I’m SO tired of picking the little jerks out of everything and flinging them outside.
I’ve gone shopping with one [or more] hitchhiking on my coat or in my hair without my knowledge.
They can sure hang on good.
I have many bats flying around in the summer because of old outbuildings in the area and an abundance of ponds that attract mosquitoes.
I also have a small Koi pond in the backyard and I LMAO when the skeeters alight on the water to lay their eggs, only to be inhaled by the awaiting Koi and Comets.
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