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