What ladybugs need
To help ladybugs reproduce in the garden, you should offer them certain things and spare others. The following things are on the positive list:
- Design gardens that are as natural as possible, rich in plants and animals
- Cultivate certain flowering plants that ladybirds use as a source of secondary food: dandelion, chives, fennel, caraway, marigold, dill, poppy)
- Create hiding places to hibernate
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Some things you can do to make it less difficult for ladybugs to colonize and multiply include:
- Keeping ants in check (because they defend aphids)
- Do not use chemical sprays
A garden design that naturally combines as many plants and animals as possible also offers ladybirds better conditions. In a versatile Biotope you will find a much richer food supply than in a garden of human form conceptions is subject where nothing is allowed to grow freely and uses toxic pesticides or insecticides will. If the feeding conditions are favorable, the ladybirds are of course more willing to stay and in better shape for wintering and breeding in the following year.
A nest made for ladybugs
One cannot speak of nesting aids with ladybirds because they do not nest during reproduction. Rather, the females lay their eggs on the underside of leaves or trunks, where the larvae are then left to their own devices. They have to hatch and develop on their own; there is no parenting culture for ladybirds.
Nevertheless, you can encourage the ladybugs to multiply. If you take the above measures to heart, you are actually already at it. Because the better the general conditions for the beetles, the sooner they will overwinter on the spot and reproduce next spring.
Above all, therefore, offer them suitable hiding places for the cold season: in autumn, leave leaves lying in a heap and build them if you don't already have one Natural stone wall have a pile of stones in the garden. In warm foliage and in cracks between stones, the beetles find ideal conditions for successful wintering.
