Ladybug, Ladybug

This is why we don’t routinely spray insecticides.

I walked out in the wheat fields today to see how they were doing. As I stood in a spot and looked around, everywhere I looked I saw a ladybug. I snapped the pictures above standing in one spot and just turning around.

Ladybugs are ‘beneficials.’ They eat aphids and other ‘bad’ insects. If we’d gone and doused the fields with insecticides we would’ve wiped out the bad bugs, but we also would’ve wiped out the ladybugs.

We’re often encouraged to apply insecticides as ‘insurance,’ to wipe out any bugs before they become a problem.

I prefer to let the ladybugs handle that problem for me