I spent forever trying to source ladybirds in Australia to help beat the aphids...I failed so started trying to lure them in...then the week I find a supplier the aphids miraculously disappear! There's still a couple around but the infestation is nowhere to be seen. However, there's obviously enough to have kept that one and only ladybird I saw happy, as I just found a ladybird larva on the underside of one of the potato plant leaves...they are TINY! About 1.5mm long and only the width of a strand of hair, but if you look closely they are just like the bug that is pictured here...quite cute really when you know what they are going to grow up into :-) Anyway, it's now storming out there so hopefully he/she stays safe and happy in those leaves. Not much else to report, but it's good to have some happy news to counteract the "morbid posts about killing things" that my sister has been complaining about ;-)
thanks to http://augsburgcollege.info/home/biology/photoofmonth/ladybird.html for the image
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