logosm.jpg

 
Ask Us A Question Here
 
A Bird's Home
 
A Birder's Resources
 
Become an Affiliate
 
Beneficial Insect Houses and Food
 
Butterfly Feeders
 
Butterfly Houses
 
Coveside Conservation Products
 
Coveside Lady Bug House
 
Dealer Wholesale Account Information
 
Garden Spiders
 
Green Lacewings
 
Heartwood Premium Lady Bug Houses
 
Ladybugs & Houses
 
Orchard Mason Bees & Homes
 
Photo Gallery
 
Product Reviews
 
The Registry of Nature Habitats Certification
 
Dealer Account Information
 
All Products Page
 
Buy Gift Certificate
 
Cypripedium - Lady Slipper Orchids
Bird feedersBirdhousesBird Houses Bird Feeders

Search for products for sale only!

Click on any product image to see larger image of product.
Bookmark - Add us to your Favorites

>

Google




Ladybugs & Houses

Ladybug Houses

Attract Ladybugs to Your Garden

Ladybugs, also called ladybirds or lady beetles, are the most well known of all beneficial insects. Ladybugs feed on soft-bodied insects such as aphids, scale insects, and other insects that are harmful to plants. Because they feed on these pests, ladybugs are often considered the garden's best friend.

Ladybugs generally spend winters in protected hiding places such as logs, buildings, under rocks, or ground cover where many ladybugs will hibernate together. In the spring, ladybugs become active and can often be found in gardens and fields.

You can encourage ladybugs to stay in your garden by providing ladybug houses. Ladybug houses serve as safe havens during the winter months and provide a place for ladybugs to lay their eggs and go through metamorphosis. In addition to providing ladybug houses, you can attract ladybugs by planting vector flowers such as angelica or dill or by allowing weeds such as dandelions, wild carrot, or yarrow. Wheast, a combination of whey and yeast, may be sprayed on plants to attract ladybugs. Avoid use of pesticides.

Keeping Ladybugs from getting in your house!

A guide to preventing ladybugs from entering your home. Each fall, many homeowners experience the nuisance of thousands of swarming ladybugs looking for shelter in homes and out buildings. As they try to find a place where they can hibernate during the winter, ladybugs often congregate on outside windows, doors, porches, and decks and sometimes even get inside of houses!

If you have experienced the nuisance of swarming ladybugs, rest assured that these beetles do not bite, sting, or carry human diseases, nor feed on wood, clothing, or food. They also do not reproduce indoors. These beetles are harmless to humans. In facts, ladybugs, also called lady beetles, are very beneficial to agriculture and gardens. Ladybugs feed on harmful aphids and scale insects associated with trees, shrubs, bushes, flowers, and many agriculture crops. With these benefits in mind, ladybugs can still be a problem for homeowners.

If ladybugs have been entering your house, the best method you can adopt is prevention. Ladybugs enter through cracks around windows, doors, siding, pipes, and other openings. If ladybugs can enter your home, then so can cold air in the winter and warm air in the summer. You should fill in any cracks and repair any damaged window or door screens. For beetles already in your house, you may use a broom and dustpan and/or a vacuum cleaner to collect them. Then you may place the beetles under a bush or other covered area well away from your home. Remember, they will be invaluable to your garden and flowers next year. Also remember that any problems you are having with swarming ladybugs will be solved once the cold winter weather set in!

   
Wildlife World Bug Box
$39.95
Provide a valuable habitat for ladybirds, and mason bees with this carefully designed bug box.Ladybird food for bug box, lasts up to 12 months.
 

   
Wildlife World Large Roosting Pockets
$17.95
Same as Roosting Pockets only 33-50% larger. 2" Opening. Price is for one roosting pocket.
 

   
Wildlife World Roofed Nesting Pockets
$24.95
These are slightly larger than the regular roosting pockets. They have a peaked wooden roof to shed rain. The 2" hole is large enough for small birds to shelter in and use as a nesting box. Price is for one roosting pocket.
 

   
Wildlife World Roosting Pockets
$14.95
Roosting pockets are cute birdhouses made out of natural materials (coco fibers, seagrass or fern) which small birds, such as wrens, finches and chickadees use for nesting or just roosting.  Each house or nesting pocket is 7" tall and 4" in diameter.  The hole is about 1.5" in diameter.  These pockets are long lasting.  Due to the nature of their design, we cannot guarantee any specific shape. Price is for one roosting pocket.


 

   
Wildlife World Spiral Fruit & Suet Feeder
$14.95
The spiral feeder is designed to hold suet, fruit and other bird snacks.  Also may be used as a nesting material holder.  The spiral feeder will attract chickadees, nuthatches, titmouse and other birds that like to cling acrobatically to feed.  The spiral feeder is made of high quality spring wire.


 

Support

The Registry of Nature Habitats - Buy Conservation Credits


For purchasing Conservation Credit(s)
You will receive
a copy of the John Audubon Multimedia CD
A replica of the complete (1840-1844)
James Audubon's Birds of America

You will also receieve a bluebird house for each Conservation Credit purchased and a 20% off coupon to be used on the A Bird's Home website!




Conservation Certificates

The Registry of Nature Habitats - Mission Statement

The Registry of Nature Habitats is dedicated to the preservation of land that, over time, has been a site and home for complex ecosystems. The Registry advocates preservation of these lands and its inhabitants, environmental education for community individuals and groups, and nurturing of these lands through restoration in order to conserve its natural resources for future generations.

Preserve

The Registry of Nature Habitats manages critical habitat, consisting of wetland, lowland, upland, forest and stream habitat, providing a home to wildlife species and plant species. As part of the mission to preserve these lands and its inhabitants, the Registry will continue to contract with owners of ecologically sensitive land as it becomes available.

Educate

The Registry of Nature Habitats is a "teaching ground," able to provide hands-on, interpretive learning experiences in areas such as ecology, botany, wildlife science, and geology, as well as the arts and humanities. The educational mission of The Registry of Nature Habitats is to teach an understanding and appreciaton of the environment, the invaluable lesson of land stewardship of our natural resources, and to expand the general knowledge of this habitat through scientific research. This will be accomplished through a year-round experiential, interactive approach, along with onsite and outreach activities including providing educational material both on this website, on media and through educational seminars. An on-site facility is in the design phase, which will house classrooms and an administrative space.

Nurture

Through several restoration projects, including the rebuilding of stream corridors, reintroducing native flora, and permitting only low-impact activities, the Registry is nurturing much land back to its natural state, undoing the damage of hundreds of years. The Registry of Nature Habitats restoration plan, developed with public and private partnerships and with local community support, will increase the land's value, enhance wildlife habitat, improve water quality, and preserve the integrity of the land's bio-diversity.

Renewable Energy

Promote the use of renewable and efficient energy technologies through education, training, workforce development, research, and project facilitation. The Registry supports clean energy development and energy conservation as the means to protect the environment, enhance public health, and save our nature habitats.

Conservation

We seek to educate people and provide innovative solutions that will help build a clean, more efficient world, by reducing energy consumption in a prudent way that does not threaten the natural balance that supports all life.



Duck Decoy Loon Lake Heartwood magnolia Coast

Woodside Gardens

(607) 746-3089
PO Box 351
Delhi, NY 13753
More information Help Desk

Copyright © 1997- Woodside Gardens
Last Updated: