If so why are they so bad?
2007-11-06 10:40:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
yes and i don`t think they are.
2007-11-06 10:51:46 · answer #1 · answered by HaSiCiT Bust A Tie A1 TieBusters 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two answers:
1. They are good they eat aphids and other bugs.
2. They are bad,because they are edging out the native lady beetle.
Down the road in time, we might find the Native Ladybird Beetle also took care of a pest that the Harlequin did not. With the native endangered or extinct, we will be fighting a new pest problem we never had before.
2007-11-06 11:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by bugsie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lady bugs, which some folks call lady birds, do eat aphids and are great protectors of your plantlife, but the Harlequin is one species from Asia that is more robust and it has left its habitat and is now out-competing the native lady bird species in other countries. When we move goods and services around the globe or any species spreads over time, we will continue to be faced with situations where the native species we have known and loved and written nursery rhymes about faces extinction at the hands of its more able competitors from other locations. In some cases there are economic ramifications, such as a non-food mollusk out-competing a food-use mollusk - but we are trying to preserve species, in this case against the same natural forces that selected the species we have now over millions of years. We want to "freeze" the current allocation of species in an artificial display of diversity in order to maintain a more varied gene pool on the planet. But evolution is still with us, so we may fight to save other lady birds or lady bugs, but most are doomed to lose ground to the Harlequin Lady Bird.
2007-11-06 11:41:00 · answer #3 · answered by Amy R 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is true they do eat pesty pests.
The problem, Anything that comes from Asia, bites.
I don't mean slang bites, I mean the little feckers have taken bits of my skin. Now it is hard to tell with lady bugs, which is which. They were released a few years ago here in farm country and now they can be worse than cluster flies. Who comes up with these importation ideas anyway?
2007-11-06 20:43:29 · answer #4 · answered by Marla ™ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are not bad,There larvae are the bad ones.yes,they do eat aphids.
2007-11-06 10:47:32 · answer #5 · answered by ASK A.S. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gee, there used to be a bus stop here?????
2007-11-06 11:26:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't you get personal with me missy!
2007-11-06 11:21:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋