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Directions: Part-1
When to Release
- Ladybugs should be introduced when your plants are partially flowering. The flowers will provide the ladybugs with a place to hide and take shelter.
Time of arrival
- Upon Arrival: Lightly mist the bag with cool water or a mixture of honey and cool water to provide the ladybugs with a drink.
- Important: Do not place the bag in the refrigerator if it is wet, and never put the bag in the freezer.
- Once the bag is dry, store it in a cool place at a temperature of 35-40°F.
- Ladybugs can be kept at this cool temperature for approximately 1-2 weeks.
Before release of ladybugs
- Before release of ladybugs:
- Lightly, sprinkle or mist the area with cool water or a mixture of honey & cool water. Therefore, the ladybugs will have some cool water/mixture to drink.
- Then, you may release a handful of ladybugs. Little at a time.
Directions: Part-2
Time of the day to release
- It is best to release the ladybugs in the early morning or at dusk when temperatures are cooler. Cloudy days are ideal for releasing them at any time.
- Do not release ladybugs during the heat of the day or when the sun is high in the sky.
Food should be present
- It is important to provide a food source, water, and a cool, shady place for the ladybugs to hide. Without these, they may leave and not return.
- If pests are not present, mist the plants with a mixture of honey and water to provide food for the ladybugs.
Where to release
- Release ladybugs on the plant leaves as well as the base (trunk) of the plants. Ladybugs naturally climb upward in search of food.
- For a more suitable environment for ladybugs, remove ants from your garden, as they often deter ladybugs from accessing their food.
- Introduce ladybugs in small batches. During the growing season, release them twice a week when the leaves are young, tender, and more susceptible to pests.
- For heavy pest infestations, release the entire bag or cup of ladybugs at once.
Elizabeth
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2025
Package arrived in a timely manner, well-packaged, and the bugs were in perfect, healthy condition, with detailed release instructions included. I feel confident in this company's reliability when I look to repurchase for my garden in the spring/summer!
John Hancock
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2025
I recently purchased the Buddy Bugs 1500 Pre-Fed Live Ladybugs for controlling aphids in my garden, and I couldn't be happier with the results! The ladybugs arrived on time and in excellent condition, clearly healthy and active. They got to work right away and have done a remarkable job reducing the aphid population in my indoor garden without the use of harsh chemicals. It's been a wonderful, eco-friendly solution. The guarantee of live delivery was reassuring, and Buddy Bugs certainly lived up to its promise. Highly recommend for anyone looking to naturally manage pests in their garden!
Steve F.
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2025
Make sure you give them a drink of water from a wet paper towel when they are released. Very happy with my purchase.
MARLA
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2024
One and only problem I have, is with the Seller's description/instructions, they make it sound like the bugs can get out of the mesh bag by themselves. They cannot, the opening size if the mesh is too small. If they could, they would escape while they were in the mail. Then the mailman would have a mail truck full of ladybugs, because the shipping box has air ventilation holes.You MUST very very carefully snip open the bag when you're ready for them to be released in the garden/yard. They cannot come out of the bag on their own, they may not even climb out of the bag if you simply cut the bag open. You might even need to cut open the bag on 2-3 sides almost until it's almost completely open for them to finally leave the bag. Or, you can carefully fully cut open one end of the bag, squeeze the sides of the bag very lightly so the cut side pops opens more widely, and they we'll start to run out of the bag. You could also then SOFTLY shake them out, if they need a little help to get moving, or if they're just not simply moving fast enough for your liking LOLAlso, they won't live very long if you don't release them within a very few days! You can't feed them nothing but sugar water. They need to eat the aphids and other Leaf-sucking insects for protein, fats, and other nutrients!At my house, I always release all of them at the same time, because I have a lot of trees and shrubs and bushes that are prone to aphid invasion where I live. With the climate changing, my area, in recent years, has gone from a Growing Zone 8 to Zone 10- 11! And this past summer, I think all of my ladybugs got broiled to death in the heat waves.Other than this one complaint I have about the Seller not giving good instructions for releasing the ladybugs, I am very happy with them. I didn't have any dead ones in the bag, they are adorable, and I just love them anyhow. I used to have a zillion ladybugs every year, and larvae everywhere, but they have declined significantly and rapidly over the past 10 years, to where now I rarely had them this year at all. The only way we're going to keep the species alive is because of people who breed them, like this Seller.I also prefer these over the ones you can buy in the plastic cup at your local Big-Name Brand hardware store in the late spring or early summer when they have them available. The store doesn't take care of the ladybugs at all, and they just die.
Andrew Paskiewicz
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2024
I’m genuinely impressed with this purchase. I didn’t think I’d be writing a review for ladybugs, but here I am. Not only did the little defense masters eradicate every plant pest I had, they are SO resilient! It’s been almost a month since I placed my order, and following care instructions I just released the last of them today. To my genuine surprise, there were maybe 15 or so dead ones out of the entire package. They do an excellent job as well seeking out pests that are harmful to your plants, and they’re fun to watch. Highly recommend!
joanie
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2024
Best supplier for live ladybugs with not one dead bug. Very active bugs went for the spider mites right away. HOWEVER, I don’t understand the packaging. Even the instructions say to reseal the bag and refrigerate in order to do multiple day releases, but the bag is completely unmanageable and unsealable once you cut it open. Ladybugs immediately dispersed everywhere and it’s impossible to do a controlled release. I managed to transfer them into a different ladybug container I happened to have, but not without losing many of them. My issue is also that I’m releasing them inside of indoor grow tents, so they are now all over my house because of the packaging and lack of control.
Gene Lucia
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2024
These ladybugs don’t do a thing to help with aphids so I don’t know why they advertise that like they do!! I dumped the whole package in my tent waaaaaay more then what was actually needed and the aphids just got worse and worse you can literally sit there and watch the ladybugs run right over the aphids and they don’t eat any!! Put ladybugs right in a big patch of aphids and they just sat there or just ran right by them so now I have an aphid infestation and a ladybug infestation!! Not happy with this purchase at all they literally made the situation worse!! If your looking for a natural solution to a pest problem these ladybugs ARE NOT the answer
jonathan kosyjana
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2023
They all made the journey all the way from California to Maryland all alive and happy.Non of them tried to fly away when I put some in my grow tent and they all started scouting my plants right away. The lights were just turned on for the day, but they should be released at night time and by the end of the day most of them have grouped together in clumps and trying to hibernate/reproduce. you definitely want to make a little home for them and provide some food such as honey, bee pollen, raisins or slices of non-acidic fruit. and a source of water like a natural sponge or wet paper towel I did not know that these are collected from the "Wild" in their dormant state and not farmed. the ladybug larvae eat a lot more than the adults. so you really want to make a home for them so they can reproduce
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