Ladybugs for Houseplants | Natural Pest Management | Graceful Plants

[@jaimehdzlcc]

Hi! We would love to see an updated ladybug video ! Love it !

[@caitlin399]

omg. i just got some ladybugs in the mail and haven't been able to make myself open the container yet. so i went to youtube to literally watch people do it to summon the courage lol

[@janicerosenthal8798]

I did them this past fall they did the job . In 2 weeks they were gone but maybe a few still hung around the rest went out the closed windows. I’m sure they had a good time while inside

[@GracefulPlants]

Yes!!!! I'm glad someone else has used them indoors! They are quite effective and I'm pretty happy with them!!

[@mulebutter433]

Great video, thank you. I just ordered some to tackle my mealybug problem on my pepper plants. I’m tired of the neem oil and alcohol. We have some curtains hung up to separate the room from the rest of the house, we’ll see how that goes. One thing we considered was getting a mosquito net hung from the ceiling to enclose the plant area. But, just gonna go for it.

[@PeggysPlants]

I don't know if I could do this in the house, but I can't wait to hear how it goes. It's so fascinating!

[@GracefulPlants]

It honestly is not that bad! I hardly notice them and they are very effective!

[@Ieat2much]

Peggy love your channel ❤️

[@ChubbyMexican252]

You can contain them in a box or storage bin and put your plants with them

[@RobloxGamer12941]

That's what I thought I saw some lady was doing on an Amazon review for nature's good guys. It looks like she had a plant in with her ladybugs. That's also a really good idea. I've actually heard of people doing that with sprays that they would put their house plant into a brown bag and put some kind of spray inside to kill off pests but I've never been able to get any good information on what exactly to use and how long you know?

[@RobloxGamer12941]

I might actually do this with a bin and put my humongous photos in there that's pretty infested with spider mites and put some ladybugs in there and see how it goes. I think they've got a little bit of breathing room in there just because first of all, the plant is in there and wouldn't that create oxygen for both of them? Maybe not. Just sounded logical LOL or there's little holes on the sides of bins most of the time but I don't know that that's enough air for them. I'm not worried about the plan but more killing the ladybugs

[@juliejredmart]

😂😂😂🐞🐞🐞🐞 I loved this! My hubby would have freaked!! Hope they Chow down!!!!

[@GracefulPlants]

Lol! John was ticked that I did this! But we've seen very few around the house thankfully!

[@JustMyra]

I should try this too but will wait till I heard from your updates . I’m juba tired spraying my plants here too. Hopefully you get good result .

[@GracefulPlants]

Yes you should!!! I hardly notice them and they are very effective!!

[@clinthochrein888]

Seeing the bag of lady bugs gave me the heebie jeebies 😳

[@GracefulPlants]

Nah it's not too bad! 😁

[@kassandralewis6714]

My hero! Seriously you get to watch a full bug v bug war happen, really neat. I’m glad to have found your channel, I have some catching up to do

[@GracefulPlants]

LOL! I throughly enjoyed it but I can't say the same for my husband! 😂

[@SplashOfGreen]

I don’t think I could do this 😂😂😂 props to you girl!! Let us now how it goes!

[@GracefulPlants]

It's actually not that bad!! I hardly notice them and they are very effective!

[@SplashOfGreen]

Graceful Plants nice! What does your husband think? 😂

[@GracefulPlants]

@@SplashOfGreen he was nooooot happy but he's over it now lol

[@MsAndrearod]

Fun vide thank you!

[@Oreooreo257]

Make sure to remove the sticky yellow thingy

[@GracefulPlants]

I did after the fact 😁

[@Plus4Charisma]

I randomly got worried about them getting stuck on the fungus gnat trap.

[@ievapommere2596]

@@Plus4Charisma me too

[@SAMMIsLIFE]

@@Plus4Charisma same I was so worried

[@hpeteacher9445]

Hi Alisa! How are you? I am so interested to see how things turn out. Please update us. 😎

[@GracefulPlants]

I will be soon!! They have worked great!!

[@hpeteacher9445]

@@GracefulPlants Very cool! Thanks! 😎

[@adelecampbell9687]

Looks interesting 👌🦋😻🐨🐦🕊️♥️🐝🎎🏵️, keep us updated.

[@GracefulPlants]

Thank you, I will!!

[@adelecampbell9687]

@@GracefulPlants your welcome 🐞🐞🐞🐞

[@jennas_nails]

I would totally do the ladybugs!!

[@GracefulPlants]

They worked!! If you've reached the end of your rope, I'd suggest them!

[@renaekatsma3666]

There is no way I could do that. It would drive me nuts knowing they are crawling all over my house. I smoosh everyone that comes into my house, maybe I should leave one or two!🤔. Thanks for the video!

[@GracefulPlants]

Lol I hardly notice them and they are very effective!! And we haven't seen very many outside of my office luckily

[@RobloxGamer12941]

I don't think it's crazy. I just now ordered 4500 from nature's food guys and excited to see what they can do with the spider mites and a few mealies I have here and there. The spider mites are my biggest problem right now though so I have some good that they can help. We shall see. Hopefully I am not supposed to know down any webbing before releasing because they are literally up my multiple foot long strands of pothos and it'll take forever to get rid of the webbing. I wish I had some sort of a general idea of how many to release per houseplant. Problem is, I've got about 350 houseplants and succies combined. Hopefully I got enough. I feel like I'll be releasing ladybugs for a full day 🤣

[@andreavinacco8011]

I’ve heard lacewings work really well and tend to stay where placed...but they’re very expensive, so I decided to start with alcohol first and go from there lol

[@GracefulPlants]

I havne't done an update yet but I'm fairly pleased with how the ladybugs did but I would be interested in trying out other 'good' bugs in fighting the pest battle!

[@sandreawhite7534]

When they are done feasting on their smorgasbord how do you get them out of the house? Or do u just leave them there to continually feed and when they run out of critters do u feed them in the meantime?

[@janicerosenthal8798]

Sandrea White the 200 ladybugs I had in my living room after a few weeks just started to crawl out between the windows and within the 3 week they were all gone , of course there were so dead ones my cat got or were on the floor and I walked on by accident. But they did the job and left

[@GracefulPlants]

They will eventually find their way out or die off. If you want to keep them around you can supplement them with food 😁

[@janicerosenthal8798]

Sandrea. Yes the same thing happened to me I love them I’m going to order more if I need they are great 👍🏻

[@RobloxGamer12941]

Once they have nothing left to eat they will disappear. They will either die or find a way out. Which is kind of the sucky thing because I'd rather keep them around for a longer period of time. No it's time to figure out what to feed them in case they run out of food on mine but I don't think they're going to for a long time LOL I've got quite the spider might infestation going on on a couple plants but hopefully not more than what I think there are

[@amandahall4582]

I’m currently suffering from a thrips infestation!! Thinking about ordering the ladybugs nothing else is working..

[@patkelly7999]

I'm with John on this Alesha, was freaked out enough looking at them in the bag, never mind let them around the house:):) hope it works out:)

[@GracefulPlants]

Lol! They worked so well though! And we hardly saw any of them outside of my office! Thankfully!

[@patkelly7999]

@@GracefulPlants Fantastico 👍👌🐞😷

[@Gazonkie]

How did they end up working in the end?

[@Xyz-we1bd]

This is what I'm planning to do too!! Lady bugs don't bug me anyways.

[@GracefulPlants]

If bugs don't bother you then I'd absolutely recommend it!

[@hammyandguineakids]

Hi! New subscriber here. I live in Wisconsin and steuggling with many pests every now and then. I just ordered this one. I hope the lady bugs leave my place after eating the pests. Do they die it i release them on bonide dead bug treated plants? Also I live in apartment so taking my plants outside isn't an optio

[@AllThingsHouseplants]

So what do you do when you want the lady bugs out of your house? I don’t want them there forever lol

[@blackstar8620]

I personally couldn't ever do this. I love ladybugs but having them crawling all over the house? Nope. Plus my husband would snap and say that's enough with the whole plant thing 😂 I got rid of certain plants that kept getting spider mites like crotons and all palms and Decreased my collection so I can better manage any outbreaks of pests. Now I carefully wash foliage and inspect under leaves each time I water.

[@GracefulPlants]

You can do it! It really wasn't that bad!! Unfortunately quarantine killed off a lot of my 'trouble maker/pest beacon' plants so I'm hoping to curb the spider mite issue! Fingers crossed!!

[@actual______criminal]

ugh! I’d love to give this a try but I’m kinda nervous as i live in an apartment! also, would ladybugs be equally as effective on fungus gnats?? that’s my main problem at the moment

[@psychxticrose]

I’m wondering about this as well

[@youtoobechannel9779]

I'm actually about to try this later tonight. Apartment and fungus gnats. I'll keep you updated.

[@planttherapy6024]

The lady bugs don't eat the leaves?

[@DogWaterChamp]

2 years later. Are mealy bugs still a problem? Do you have lady bug problems now??

[@josecarloesteban2467]

Feeling very hesitant with releasing these guys into my home. From reading from your replies to others' comments, it appears it was a great success! How long did it take for you to notice the effectiveness of the ladybugs? How noticeable were 300 ladybugs crawling around your home? Any overpopulation issues in your home since releasing them? TIA! :)

[@GracefulPlants]

My husband was not excited about the idea but it honestly was not bad! I hardly noticed them! I couldn't tell you if there was exact time that it took for me to notice but I did notice that my plants that were having issues started to perk up so I felt that they were helping! No over population issues, once the pests were elimanated the ladybugs kind of dissappeared. Don't ask me where they went because there were not that many dead ones around!

[@trentgage]

Thank you for the video! I am wondering how things are going 11 days later? i am currently dealing with spider mites and mealy bugs, and feeling a bit defeated. I currently am using neem oil with soap but like you say they just pop right back up.

[@GracefulPlants]

Things are going very well!! I would highly recommend it especially if you can't seem to get rid of them with normal treatments!

[@RobloxGamer12941]

Ugh I can't stand neem oil. I don't use it at all anymore. My go-to out of probably 10 different chemicals that I've bought over a 10-month span of time, some natural and some pesticides and granules and stuff, my go-to seems to be 70% isopropyl alcohol all the time now. I'm a little weary using that on spider mites though because when I tap some onto a piece of paper and spray the alcohol on them, it did not kill them right away. I had to spray them again. Very strange and made me worried. But honestly I've done nothing to try to get rid of the spider mites on the pothos and they are hanging on like troopers and not dying at all which is crazy. They're literally up every single leaf and they're very very long strands. Very weird

[@GreenLifeOmaha_GLO]

2 or 3, not 300 lol, in my house kill all the pests. I never realized how many pests we bring in overwintering.

[@km_72]

I know this was a year ago, but how did you get them out? Or are they permanent residents now? 😂

[@GracefulPlants]

LOL! Honestly once the pests were taken care of the ladybugs seemed to just disappear. I figured most of them got outside because we never found too many dead ones around the house!

[@luizito1212]

Do they fly alot in your home i wanna buy some for my plants in my rooms window i prob only need like 20 but these come in pack of 100 minimum

[@HooliganArts]

You don't have to use all 100 at once. You can use however many you want then close up the package and place it in your refrigerator. They'll stay alive for a couple months in there and you can just kept releasing however many you need whenever you need them

[@causman1763]

Follow up on how it worked out, are the laby bugs still around?

[@GracefulPlants]

They worked! But they are all gone now :)

[@causman1763]

@@GracefulPlants thanks for replying so quickly. I think I'm gonna try to make a large container with screens and put the plants inside with the LBs to contain and focus their hunger

[@jedwin4491]

did it work?

[@maryj7912]

Have you watched the video of Plant a Seed With Ash talking about releasing them in her home? lol

[@GracefulPlants]

Nope but I'm adding it to my watchlist! lol

[@heatherklatt5083]

What is the update? Did it work?❤️

[@GracefulPlants]

I haven't gotten a chance to film an update due to all the quarentine stuff but yes they did work!! I plan on getting more to work our sunporch this summer!

[@heatherklatt5083]

Graceful Plants cool! That was awesome video!

[@chicmommaplants9692]

Yikes!!!!! 💕

[@GracefulPlants]

It wasn't that bad actually!

[@tammymurphy392]

I would have to put the infested plants in one room with the lady bugs so that way they are not in my whole house. Good luck

[@GracefulPlants]

That would definitely work! We've seen very few in the house outside of my office!

[@evaeva1932]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH BUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GracefulPlants]

But they are good bugs!!

[@dkf819]

So how did this workout? Does your husband still live with you?

[@MsAndrearod]

ROFL

[@MatthewHoag77]

"Fight Fire with Fire"? That's a pretty brutal number about an apocalyptic tactic. Good thing you're only dealing with buggity bugs rather than the subject matter in the aforementioned song from the 80s (right around the time you were born). No one wants to resort to scorched earth mentality.

[@GracefulPlants]

Lol! Honestly I was getting to that point with the damn spider mites! 🤣

[@MatthewHoag77]

@@GracefulPlants "Do unto others as they've done to you..."