ladybirds

[wordmaster]

can I buy ladybirds so I can sow them on my land to kill or eat greenfly, ladydird the insect type

[teag1rl]

apparently so:

http://www.greengardener.co.uk/aphidout.htm

[teag1rl]

take '</p>' off the end of the address when it comes up in the link!

[WendyS]

Interesting site. Perhaps I shall order some mealworms and hand-tame the two robins who constantly come into my garden to be fed. They get particularly brave when they need to get large amounts of food to feed their babies. I have almost done it in the past by offering them fatty oats but am sure they will find live wriggling mealworms hard to resist, even if they are quite expensive.