Re: Lady bugs, lady beetles...gone

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Andrew,

I have not seen a lady beetle since early spring, and then there were only a 
few on my apple trees. I attributed that to a lack of aphids at the time, 
because of our cool spring, but I'm still not seeing any. No eggs or larvae 
either.

I had noticed last winter that we had very few in the ceiling fixtures at 
church and meant to ask whether they had had someone spray or caulk to keep 
them out. I'm pretty sure that they didn't because of budget constraints.

Our town does not have a spray program, and my neighbors aren't big on 
pesticide use, either. It's as much a mystery to me as where the wasps have 
gone. We normally have quite a few wasps and hornets that help with pest 
control in my vegetable garden, and I've seen very few of them, either. And 
I've seen exactly 3 honey bees. It's getting creepy.

Daryl Pulis
Manager, CompuServe/Netscape Gardening Forum
(The oldest gardening forum on the web)
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