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i have planted nasturtiums, poached eggs, english and french marigolds. we have been vistited by loads of bees but as of yet no ladybirds and hoverflies i have loads of blackfly starting to appear along with greenfly and aphids

any one else not seeing ladybirds and hoverflies

I ve seen loads of hoverflies and a few ladybirds and loads of bloomin Wasps!!!!

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We've had a couple of hover flies but no lady birds

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just seen a few ladybirds this week, they were round the osteospermum plants

They'll come out when the sun does ... I have a few around, larvae too. But not thousands yet. The larvae seem to all be on aphidless plants (plants that don't even suffer from aphids) so I have been moving them onto my roses and broadies. No point moving the adults, they just fly away again.

Come on, sunshine!

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i had one ladybird last week ........ i put it on my rose bush, it ate its fill then flew away :-(