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I’ve been enjoying a windowsill of herbs the past couple of months, and was dismayed to find them being devoured by aphids. I did what any normal person would do and immediately purchased 2,000 ladybugs.

what 2000 ladybugs look like in a bagwe haz freedom!exploring the gardencontinuing the escape

 

In a rare moment of good judgment, I released 1,985 of them in the backyard, and shook only the remaining few over my ailing plants.

aphid-eating invasionmuch more fun letting them crawl out on their own than merely dumping themsettled indoors for lunch on a mint leaf

 

UPDATE: 2 hours after release, I noticed a pair of the ladybugs making sweet, passionate love in the oregano. The head count might be back up to 2,000 ladybugs in a few weeks.

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Aponeurotica is an accidental software engineer but more importantly a lover of abrasive music, the natural world, and drawing strange little things. Their formal training is in printmaking, preservation of 19th century photographs, bookbinding, anatomical illustration and the art of permaculture.