As the weather has become warmer, ladybugs have infiltrated our garden. This is a good thing! So I read up on them. Here is some information I found in the Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening by J.I. Rodale: "When entomologists made serious study of the beetle, they came up with a startling economic fact: it lives on scale, soft-bodied insects and their eggs and larvae, but it never damages plants, truly one of nature's gift for man's benefit. Fortunately the ladybug is no vegetarian, her diet being strictly confined to soft-bodied insects such as aphids, mealy bugs and their kin which are destructive to crops in many localities. Biggest enemy of the ladybug is the poisonous insecticide. Like all other forms of wildlife beneficial to man ladybugs ask only for protection and food."
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