1500 Live Ladybugs Hippodamia Convergens

The ladybugs showed up happy and healthy! We released them according to the directions and they did well, before we knew it there were even Ladybug larva in the garden. They seemed to help a lot with the aphids. I will likely buy these early again next year as a natural pest repellant.

The ladybugs arrived a few days earlier than expected. I must say that there seems to be no way to confirm that there were 1,500 but there were a lot. They came in two well vented bags. They also come with two vented plastic cups but I have no idea how to get them from the bags into the cups. I spread one of the two bags into my shrubs a few hours after they arrived and put the second bag in the refrigerator for four days before spreading them in case I did something wrong. Their survival rate seemed very good. I was pleasantly surprised.

Arrived ahead of schedule and we’re 99.9% alive. I didn’t inspect all 300 but I’m very happy. They got right to work on my plant and I’m very pleased. Included was a separate container incase you didn’t want to release all on one crop.

Lots of bugs and they are very lively

Their alive!

We could not be happier with our purchase and our garden is coming back to life. A little more than half have flown to their next destination, but we still have a lot that are continually feeding off of our garden pests.

I have ordered ladybugs from other suppliers and they were more than a half dead when they arrived. These were way better and the lady bugs are still actively eating aphids 3 days later

Future buyers beware! Nothing bad in regards to shipping or handling of the ladybugs. My compliant is about the actual ladybugs themselves. So my little brown package arrived with suppose 750 ladies. After sunset I watered my greenhouse and released the little Divas under my plants as instructed. Lots of stragglers and had to shake the bag to get the buggers to come out and even after a day they still didn't seem to want to move. Long story short they went everywhere but on the plants to eat the aphids/mites/thrips. I must have gotten the laziest batch of ladybugs ever! They lay on the soil and don't really go anywhere. There might be one ladybug on every other plant and I know I still have several hundred on the top soil cause I see them either moving around the topsoil and/or resting in a hiding spot. In the photo, I took a piece of wood that the ladybugs were congregating on, and I put it up in my plant to try to get them off and eat the bugs on the plant but as you can see, that didn't work. Nevertheless, I expected more and had higher hopes that these ladybugs would fix my problem, but by the looks of it, that'll probably never happen and I'll have to find other means has to get rid of my aphid/mites and thrip problem. Bottom line, if you have a bug problem, I wouldn't solely rely on ladybugs to be the permanent solution.