Product Description: These beneficial ladybugs are the most popular and widely used beneficial insects for commercial and home use for pest control. Ladybugs are capable of consuming up to 50 to 60 aphids per day, but they will also eat a variety of other insects and larvae including: scales, mealy bugs, leaf hoppers, mites, and various types of soft bodied insects.

Contrary to the manufacturer's claim, these bugs are not ladies. When I recieved my box, I opened it to let the ladybugs have some free time before I put them to work on the mink farm. Out sprang 9001 ladybugs (I assume I got the one missing from an earlier reviewer's batch) and they quickly took over the house. Ladies? Ha! They're drinking all my beer, they're annoying the cats, and most of them sit around on the couch all day watching Spike TV and having farting contests. I would strongly hesitate to call these bugs ladies of any sort. Miss Manners would be appalled.

On the other hand, they do good work regarding the garden here at the mink farm. Sure, they're drunk half the time, but they sure know their way around a garden. (One of them told me this is due to time spent working in a prison down south somewhere.)

Work ethic alone gets these "ladies" 4 stars. Also, the extra one ladybug makes a great pot of chili, so she's officially an in-house ladybug around here now. You have to use their specific strengths to get the most out of your ladybug purchase.

They apparently sent me a box of aphids instead of lady bugs. Now my plants are dead. BEWARE. Open the box slowly. I was all excited and just ripped the box open. Yeah, try to get 10,000 aphids off your tomato plants.

I don't know what happened with my order, but apparently there was a dude in the box. With ground shipping that little bugger got a workout. He died, but the box is absolutely full of eggs. He must of got his thing on with at least half of the little ladies.... 5 stars! all the way!!! That guy is the Karim Abdul Jibar of the bug world!!! I am now expecting a litter of 2.4 million bugs. WOOHOOO!!! I'm off to Ebay!!!

These people are ridiculous. Make sure when you get your product that you count it. They are jiping us guys!!!!! I only received 8957. Not only that, but 3 of them were DOA!!!! What kind of business are you running!!! By the way, I found that a good way to count them is to use fly paper. Keeps them suckers from moving all around. All and all I forgive them for the slighting me of 46 live bugs. I mean, that's barely a spoonfull.

They are everywhere. Flesh eating, skin tearing spawns of Hell. Why would you sell these things to people. Please kill me now!

This delicious and romantic meal should quickly warm your mood for the evening!

9000 ladybugs with shells and legs
1 ounce melted butter
1 teaspoon paprika
1 ounce brandy
1 pinch salt and white pepper to taste

Bing Cherry sauce
1 8 ounce can black bing cherries
2 tablespoons Burgundy wine
2 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
1 pinch salt

Preparing Bing Cherry Sauce: Drain juice from cherries. Combine juice with wine, sugar, cornstarch, and salt; mix thoroughly. Bring mixture to a boil until sauce thickens. Add the drained cherries.

Season ladybugs with salt, white pepper, paprika, and brush with butter. Bake for 5 minutes at 325°F or until cooked and tender. Place ladybugs in a medium size ovenproof serving dish and cover with sauce. Have table set, candles lit, all accompaniments on table, and turn off lights when ready to flambé.

How to flambé: Pour 1/4 ounce of brandy over dish and place in middle of table. Using long wooden matches, ignite ladybugs. When flame goes out and liquor has burned off, you are ready to serve. (Yield: 2 servings)

Sometimes I take my paycheck home in one dollar bills and throw it on the floor to roll in. This is great fun friends, I assure you, you sould try it. Last week, on a whim, I bought 17 bags of these LadyBugs to roll in instead of the usual cash. I was expecting a fun bonanza logroll jamboree of ladybug joy, but what I got was a rash, and a mess. I wouldn't roll in these things if I were you, Amazon does not mention that in large groups, these things bite, HARD! They also have a mild venom that causes hallucinations, but in small doses, it does nothing, but when you get bitten by approximately 15,400 of these little hellspawn, the "funtrain" gets moving. Whilst rolling in my bed of ladybugs, the cieling started moving, then the air smelled purple, musig was like cheese in the mungerville blastenholdt. Donkeys fly with the steel will of a drunken thresher shark radar loving frito bag. The patterns of the bugs, crawling, crawling, oh the extasy and pain of alarganafksikjnrjf it's grey.............34085 my hands are like pork, loggggggggggggg...!