Does anyone besides me feel sad the way ladybugs are sold?

Question

They shove hundreds of them in a plastic bag with a few shredded pieces of dried grass. Half are already dead when U open them up. Is there a more humane way to buy them?

Sorry folks, I have a heart for helpless creatures.

Answer 1

That has always bothered me too. In fact, when I'm at a garden center that has packages of lady bugs with many dead, I ask to speak with the manager and usually get a deal if I buy all the remaining lady bugs.
You probably already know this, but------------
wait till around dusk, water the garden (wherever you plan on releasing them), open the bag and place it where they can crawl out onto the wet plants. They will be very thirsty and more likely to stick around a while to eat the pests in your garden instead of flying away.

Answer 2

To answer several of the already posted follow ups, too:

Gardeners buy Ladybugs as a non-chemical means of controlling aphids on plants.

If you live in the United States and are close to either Lowes or Home Depot, you can puchase Ladybugs in their gardning center. However, they are usually NOT in a plastic bag, but rather a mesh type bag. Don't go feeling sorry for the bugs being in such tight quarters now. Everything is relative. A bug won't remember much of what they did over the past minute, and their relative size makes it more like an apartment building to them.

You can also order Ladybugs on line...just google it!

Answer 3

Lets form some kind of group against the inhumane sale of ladybugs and get all over TV and radio with our message like the folks at peta. Then force our agenda on the Ladybug buying masses, and make them adhear to our standrds and beliefs.

Answer 4

Oh please. Ladybugs are just that, bugs. They have a max life expectancy of about a year, providing something doesn't eat them before that. It's not like we are talking endangered species here. Some of them may be dying of old age, for all you know. Ladybugs don't eat grass anyway- they eat aphids and other small bugs in turn. They are carnivores, not herbivores. So would you feel better if your bag arrived with a bunch of aphids or something in them, being eaten? Who would be the helpless one in that scenario? So no, I don't feel sad. Weep for the children being bought and sold all over various parts of the world, child porn is a lot sadder than some beetle in a sack.

Answer 5

I have a heart for helpless creatures as well

thanks for asking this question

if what you said is correct, and that lady bugs have a 50% survival rate, notwithstanding what the previous poster said about them having a short lifespan, then its a terrible crime that must be recognised by society and regulated by the full force of the law :) there!

Answer 6

Blackie, I were given an same discomfort. Im ill of countless those human beings holding oh im so happy he became useless. all our young children are chance-free now. those human beings prefer to close up. Michael became not a ill pervert. He loved youthful ones and may not in any respect damage them and all those situations even as the lads were given older they admitted michael not in any respect did something to them! They were stupid and needed funds!! Im unhappy too. plenty others are too. Your not on my own.

Answer 7

You could collect them youself in the field. I don't suggest this, very time consuming. Ladybugs have short life spans, they are going to die soon anyway.

Answer 8

I didnt know u could even sell animals like lady bugs?>? where in the world do they do this???
I wouldnt go buy any thats dumb..and i think people shouldnt kill them either b0cus they have lil families too...dont they??
well i think they do..is that weird?? lol

Answer 9

its not great treatment but we treat our own species horribly even -- if you know 1/2 will arrive expired order double. start a ladybug sanctuary. they are cute and useful.

Answer 10

thats news to me..i had no idea they sold lady bugs..who buys them?