Video I've never found again, nerdy fat kid releases 500 ladybugs he ordered online. He opens the can, points it down, and they just go FLOMPH, hit the ground in mass. The look of disappointment is hilarious. Poor guy is just staring straight down at what I assume he expected would be a dramatic event. I expected a dramatic event!
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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Aphids deserve it.
You haven't played Grounded, I reckon?
Ladybugs rescued my plants this summer! I actually ordered 20 of them to get rid of aphids (and the ants which came with them). They took a week, then everything alive was eaten. They actually took up a fight with the ants. There were some casualties, but apparently the ladybugs won.
Felt a bit silly to order bugs in the mail, but collecting them took ages and one looks ridiculous hunting for ladybugs in the park.
Where did you get only like 20? Everywhere I look to buy them I have to buy like 2500 at a time. Or am I misunderstanding?
No i really got 20 (19, one was dead on arrival). :) My local hardware store ships them like this.
I also got a bag of ladybugs this summer to control aphids on my cherry tree, but they didn't stick around. Idk if I applied them too late or the birds got them but we didn't get any cherries because of the aphids. I'm going to try again next year with more bags of them and earlier in the season.
I recently learned it's the larvae (little black and orange alligator looking things) that do most of the eating. We ordered ladybugs this year, most of them flew away, but they left little orange oval eggs on the back of a few leaves. When the larvae hatched, they demolished the aphids.
Well hell, did not know that! Thought the adults did the murder.