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| Asian Lady Beetle |
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| Eastern Boxelder Bug |
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| Geometer Moth |
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| Asian Lady Beetle |
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| Cluster Fly |
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| Asian Lady Beetle (and unknown moth) |
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| Woolly Bear Caterpillar |
November 13, 2024
Wordless Late-Season Garden Visitors
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Do you allow the Asian lady beetles to stay?
ReplyDeleteHi Lisa: Good question. There are so many of them, it would be impossible to get rid of them outside. And we use only organic, non-toxic methods for pest control (for example, milky spore to reduce the number of Japanese beetles). But we do have to watch for cracks in the house structure to keep them out.
DeleteQuite a range among your visitors. Do they disappear when it gets cold?
ReplyDeleteYes, there are many insects still out and about this time of year. As it gets colder, the numbers greatly reduce. Many of them burrow in crevices and underground. Also, once we have snow, just about everything is buried. On mild late winter/spring days some start to make appearances again. :)
DeleteLove the ladybugs, gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteSaw your post at Comedy Plus - Wordless Wednesday.
My entries this week are numbered #59+60
Hope you will join SSPS https://esmesalon.com/tag/wordlesswednesday/ Now open
Thanks for the info. I'll check out your posts. So many creative entries for WW. Have a great rest of your week and weekend!
DeleteHello, I do like all the photos.
ReplyDeleteErnie met his first woolly bear caterpillar, he tried to make friends with it, but it rolled up in a ball so tight. ;-) It was cute, Ernie just sniffed and sniffed that little caterpillar.
Thanks, Carla. The woolly bears seem more plentiful this fall--they're so fun to observe so I can see why Ernie was interested. Nicholas (my dog) doesn't seem as interested in them as he did when he was a puppy. It's funny to read "Ernie" when you mention your dog, because that's my hubby's name. Tee hee.
DeleteGood photos!
ReplyDeleteI've read about those ladybeetle "invasions" into homes in colder areas of the US--must be hard to deal with!
The ladybeetles haven't been too bad here. We have loads of them outside, but only a few inside--mostly in the late winter and early spring. Unfortunately, however, they've displaced much of the native ladybug population. :(
DeleteYour lady beetles are called ladybirds here and the Asian ones are called Harlequin ladybirds. I read somewhere that it took 100 years for the grey squirrel to colonise England, but only 10 years for the Harlequin ladybird to take over. They only arrived here in 2004. They are destroying our native ladybirds parly by being so omniverous and eating their eggs.
ReplyDeleteHi Chloris: Wow, those figures are incredible. I know we've had the Asian/Harlequin ones here for many years. Some research shows that their numbers greatly expanded in the early 1990s. I admit I have trouble distinguishing them from our native ladybugs (smaller in numbers now) until I look very closely.
DeleteThe woolly bear caterpillar is my favorite of this group, so cute!
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