#green lacewings
Reminder, as winter wraps up in the northern hemisphere:
Don’t ever buy lady bugs (or lady birds or lady beetles or what have you) for your garden.
- They’re wild-collected, not farmed. Meaning every time you purchase them, you’re actively hurting wild ladybug populations. (And the way in which they’re collected is also plenty horrible).
- They are not kept with adequate nourishment or water, so by the time you buy them, ~50% of the bugs on average are either already dead or will drop dead within a few hours of you releasing them.
- They DON’T EVEN WORK. Ladybugs don’t hang around in one place. The small fraction that live will LEAVE YOUR GARDEN immediately (if you want ladybugs, you have to court them with an attractive space. The end. Bitches can’t be bought).
Buygreen lacewings instead. They’re sustainably farmed, they arrive as either eggs or larvae, they stick around where they’re released, they’re native, they’ll decimate aphids and other tiny pests, they’re perfect…. And they’re a pretty green color.
But don’t be the fucking asshole who buys ladybugs.
