Controlling Aphids - Natural Pest Control

Lacewing & Lady Bird Log £24.99: Attract Lacewings to your garden or allotment and they will repay you with munching on troublesome aphids!

Spotting Aphids In Your Garden

Aphids are most active from spring to late summer on your outdoor plants and can be found indoors all year round. You can normally find Aphids colonising shoot tips, flower buds and the underside of younger leaves.

Signs of aphid problems include a sticky residue on foliage, stems and fruits. This is created when Aphids suck out the sap from your leaves and leave behind a residue which eventually results in the growth of black mould.

Aphids can also stunt the growth of your plants with curled or distorted leaves which can weaken your plants.

Benefits of Lacewings

Appropriately nicknamed “Aphid Lion”, Lacewings are a great natural predator of Aphids and the perfect way to protect your prized veggies from troublesome aphids.

Adult Lacewings also love feasting on aphids but also have a taste for pollen, nectar and aphids honeydew. As an adult lacewings lay their eggs in the spring producing around 20 eggs per day. The eggs are laid on the underside of the leaves; these then develop into the various larval stages of the lacewing before turning into adults.

During the larval stage, Lacewings can eat up to 50 Aphids each day. These Lacewing larvae also enjoy feasting on caterpillars, mites and other soft bodied insects.

Lacewing Habitats

Lacewing & Ladybird Log

You can provide a shelter for Lacewings with our Lacewing & Ladybird Log and they will repay you with preying on troublesome aphids, keeping your ornamentals, vegetables, fruit, greenhouse plants and house plants looking beautiful and healthy.

During the winter & early spring the hollow central chamber of our Lacewing habitat is filled with natural material to provide insulation keeping them free & safe from predators while they hibernate. When spring comes your Lacewings will be rejuvenated and ready to protect your plants from aphids.

Interesting Lacewing Facts

• There are 14 kinds of green lacewings in Britain.
• Male & Female Lacewings make courtship “songs’ by vibrating their abdomens which is unique to each species.
• A Lacewing can eat up to 10,000 aphids in its lifetime.
• In autumn, adult lacewings lose their green colour and develop a brown straw shade to blend in with autumn colour.

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