Monday, November 15, 2010

Learnt something this weekend


I was out gardening like I planned.  I managed to weed four of our eight gardens, so very happy.  Then yesterday arvo it started raining and is still again today.......so my plants are happy too.  I found my four watermelon plants in the weed/vegi garden.  A couple of them are flowering already.  So maybe some watermelons in the not too distant future.

As I was putting the hose away from having the sprinklers on ...... yes I brought the rain on by watering my garden. lol.  Anyways, I noticed these white fuzzy bugs and thinking they just had to be bad for plant I squished a few.  Well last night I decided to google and.............


Now I am a little sad as those white fuzzy things are apparently the larvae of a ladybird (ladybug, ladybeetle).  Big time oops!!!  I have never thought before how a ladybird came to be.  I think I assumed there were eggs laid they hatched as ladybirds.  If you would like to see a few more ladybirds and learn a little more here is a great site all about the ladybirds in the Brisbane area of Australia.

7 comments:

  1. Oooo thanks for this info I love Ladybirds but noticed that we don't get many of them around now, probably too many gardener's squishing their larvae, lol, only joking Merry, I had a Ladybird in my bedroom a few weeks back on the door handle of my wardrobe of all places, so I put her carefully outside. I will make sure that I do not do anything to any little white stuffs that appear in my garden although I keep it tidyish I like the insects and wildlife to have a bit of peace from me. Hugs Lorraine x

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  2. thanks for that - I have now learned something too ;-)
    must be the time for ladybirds - I had one in my craft room on the curtain and I took it outside too - don't know how it got in ;-)

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  3. Oh WOW I learnt something new today,who would have thought that the white thing were gorgeous little lady beetles!!!
    xx

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  4. OH NO! Oh well at least you googled it, so you know now1 I wouldn't have thought that either!

    I Do LOVE ladybugs, I remember collecting them when I was little!

    Hope you get some nice watermelons, our tomatoes are really popping out here, not ripe yet, but hopefully by Christmas!

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  5. Well, they do say your never to old to learn...and it's true, did not know this, love ladybirds, how cute.xx

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  6. aah - baby ladybugs - cute.TYFS.
    Linbyx

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  7. Oh no! Well, don't be too hard on yourself because you didn't know! We have lots of ladybugs here but they look a bit different in color. I have never seen the larvae before .... very strange looking! Neat info. so thanks for sharing!!

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