{"id":953,"date":"2013-08-28T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:31:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:31:56","slug":"bring-on-the-ladybugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionsphinx.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the ladybugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two nights ago we had to unleash an army of red spotted bugs and they managed to eat through a plague of aphids on some of my herb pots.<\/p>\n<p>We have kept the garden spray-free for 5 years now and with the sometimes pain in the ass invasion of aphids we also have the pleasure of countless praying mantis, bees and spiders working away in a sort of convivial way .<\/p>\n<p>We bought some ladybugs from a nursery , released them at dusk and they must have chomped aphids all night because now the pots are bug-free and i don&#8217;t need to spray them.<\/p>\n<p>Live ladybugs are also sold on Amazon&#8230;.how awesome is that ? 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