silusbotwin
Well-Known Member
Anyone who has used ladybugs in large numbers, as a pest control preventive measure, knows that they are on every surface in the grow room. I have a bunch of 1.5 gallon containers with 2 foot tall plants that are almost ready for harvest and they are covered in ladybugs.
Anybody care to share their strategies for removing ladybugs from ready-to-harvest-plants that will keep them in the grow room on the rest of the plants (perpetual grow here so there are always other plants to live in) and NOT bring them out along with the plants? Usually I cut down the plant and shake it a bit vigorously, which I do not like doing due to rupturing crystal heads. After I chop/shake/hang the plants, I shake the containers off vigorously inside the flower room which always results in soil piles gathering on the floor in the flower room. I wait for a while until all the ladies have crawled out of the soil pile and onto the other plants and then I clean it up.
There has to be an easier way to do this. Is there something I can use to lure the off the plants? Sorta like bees being smoked? Any advice will be greatly appreciated
Anybody care to share their strategies for removing ladybugs from ready-to-harvest-plants that will keep them in the grow room on the rest of the plants (perpetual grow here so there are always other plants to live in) and NOT bring them out along with the plants? Usually I cut down the plant and shake it a bit vigorously, which I do not like doing due to rupturing crystal heads. After I chop/shake/hang the plants, I shake the containers off vigorously inside the flower room which always results in soil piles gathering on the floor in the flower room. I wait for a while until all the ladies have crawled out of the soil pile and onto the other plants and then I clean it up.
There has to be an easier way to do this. Is there something I can use to lure the off the plants? Sorta like bees being smoked? Any advice will be greatly appreciated