1500 Pre-Fed Live Ladybugs for Aphid Control | Hippodamia Convergens | Guaranteed Live Delivery

One and only problem I have, is with the Seller’s description/instructions, they make it sound like the bugs can get out of the mesh bag by themselves. They cannot, the opening size if the mesh is too small. If they could, they would escape while they were in the mail. Then the mailman would have a mail truck full of ladybugs, because the shipping box has air ventilation holes.You MUST very very carefully snip open the bag when you’re ready for them to be released in the garden/yard. They cannot come out of the bag on their own, they may not even climb out of the bag if you simply cut the bag open. You might even need to cut open the bag on 2-3 sides almost until it’s almost completely open for them to finally leave the bag. Or, you can carefully fully cut open one end of the bag, squeeze the sides of the bag very lightly so the cut side pops opens more widely, and they we’ll start to run out of the bag. You could also then SOFTLY shake them out, if they need a little help to get moving, or if they’re just not simply moving fast enough for your liking LOLAlso, they won’t live very long if you don’t release them within a very few days! You can’t feed them nothing but sugar water. They need to eat the aphids and other Leaf-sucking insects for protein, fats, and other nutrients!At my house, I always release all of them at the same time, because I have a lot of trees and shrubs and bushes that are prone to aphid invasion where I live. With the climate changing, my area, in recent years, has gone from a Growing Zone 8 to Zone 10- 11! And this past summer, I think all of my ladybugs got broiled to death in the heat waves.Other than this one complaint I have about the Seller not giving good instructions for releasing the ladybugs, I am very happy with them. I didn’t have any dead ones in the bag, they are adorable, and I just love them anyhow. I used to have a zillion ladybugs every year, and larvae everywhere, but they have declined significantly and rapidly over the past 10 years, to where now I rarely had them this year at all. The only way we’re going to keep the species alive is because of people who breed them, like this Seller.I also prefer these over the ones you can buy in the plastic cup at your local Big-Name Brand hardware store in the late spring or early summer when they have them available. The store doesn’t take care of the ladybugs at all, and they just die.