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Attracting Ladybugs
Attracting Ladybugs

Along with insects, ladybugs also look for pollen for a food source, so there are numerous plants you can grow to help attract them. Flowers and herbs such as cilantro, dill, fennel, caraway, yarrow, tansy, angelica, scented geraniums, coreopsis and cosmos are good choices for luring the ladybug.

Plant lots of Dill. It's a great host plant for Lady Bugs. When I see aphids on a rose or tomato plant, I snip off a branch of dill that has Lady Bug Larvae crawling on it and tuck it into the plant with aphids. Nature takes its course.
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