Ladybeetles at home

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Катя Л., 17.04.2006 20:45

Please tell me if it is possible to keep ladybirds at home, what to feed them, where to keep them, etc...

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18.04.2006 22:12, Chromocenter

Katya L., honey or sweet tea are not suitable, at least in its pure form: there are no proteins in these things. And a ladybug is not a butterfly: it lives as an adult for a long time (I don't know exactly how long), and what its larva has accumulated cannot be enough for it. Only here I wonder if these things can be combined, for example, with meat crumbs?
Diapause is when insects go into something like hibernation. Different insects can have it at all stages of development. It is regulated in many insects during the light period of the day: I remember once bringing out swallowtails at home (a long time ago), so I first put the jar where they pupated on the balcony, and then I think - they are already in diapause anyway, I will bring it home, the wind will still knock it down on the balcony. Well, the swallowtail flew out in the middle of winter. I don't really know if it's the heat or the light.
The ladybug is trying to crawl between your fingers, probably because it wants to hide.
Katya, do you really look like the picture shows?

19.04.2006 22:46, Chromocenter

In nature, in my opinion (although it is not immediately visible), ladybirds are in two states: they eat and they are looking for food. If they are given a lot and often-they can overeat - this happens to predators: it can not determine when it stops and eats while they are given. That's where he dies (quite seriously). True, the main prey in the nature of ladybirds is aphids, and they are found in large colonies and slow, so the ladybug should be able to determine when it is full-otherwise there is a great danger that it will die of gluttony when it comes across a large colony of aphids - I don't know if this happens in Moscow, but here in Israel, I have a thicket of Chinese roses in front of my window, so at some point there were so many aphids that it was visible from the window with the naked eye! Chinese roses withered and then they were cut down, planted something else... Yes, but that's beside the point. About ladybirds: it is better to experiment with this: try to give, for example, starting with three times and see when their appetite decreases (that is, they will react less) or when they will fly less. Then you need to give them a little less than it was this time. Yes, I remembered: somewhere on our site I saw a link to a large site about beetles. I'll find the ladies now.
Here, I found it:
http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/

19.04.2006 22:57, RippeR

Despite the huge number of aphids, cows still do not have a very large opportunity to eat too much.. The main obstacle to this is ants, which are much more numerous than cows, which are everywhere and which fiercely protect the source of sweet secretions - aphids.
I don't remember exactly, but it seems that they need to be fed 2 times a day, they will definitely have enough.
ZIN's coleopterology site is very good, but how to keep cows is definitely not there. But there is about ground beetles - it is also interesting to keep. Po is not so much better than ground beetles - it is more interesting and more difficult, which makes the content more interesting. And the cows are somehow too simple, despite only the flour with the extraction of aphids. I understand some foreign, or Far Eastern people, but ours.. except for practice.