Ladybird Breeding Kit

This kit contains everything you need to breed your own Ladybirds (Adalia Bipunctata), which can then be released in your garden. Ladybirds are one of the best known beneficial insects and are a welcome sight, as they help to control a range of pests including greenfly.Why not have a go at breeding your own? Ideal for children, schools or as a unique gift. This Ladybird Breeding kit is designed to be reusable, and you can re-order larvae and repeat the whole process. Ladybird Larvae Refills are available between March and September. N.B. Ideal Gift - Each Ladybird Kit comes with voucher for the 1st lot of larvae included, so you can give the kits themselves as a gift and then the vouchers can be sent off anytime between March and September to receive the larvae. How does it work? Send off the freepost voucher included & you will receive over 25 ladybird larvae, food & instructions. Transfer the larvae to the breeding chamber & add the food. The whole process of raising adult ladybirds from larvae takes around 30 days. The larvae will feed, grow & shed their skins 3 times before pupating. After a further 6 to 8 days, the adults emerge. At first the adults are yellow, but within a few hours their rear wings will harden & change to red. The adult ladybirds can then be studied for a few days before releasing them in your garden to munch on greenfly and other tasty bugs! N.B. The ladybird kit is designed to be reusable, and you can re-order ladybird larvae anytime between March and September and repeat the whole process.

Ladybird Giftbox

Ladybirds are the gardener's best friends. This box contains all you need to keep them happy in your garden. The box includes a Ladybird House, Ladybird Food, Ladybird Field Guide and 5 chocolate shaped ladybirds. ."Hi, just wanted to let you know I gave one of your ladybird house gift boxes to my sister for Christmas and she loved it, said it was a great and unusual present. I will be back later in the year to order ladybirds for her birthday." Audrey

MiniBug Box

The Minibug bug box is a functioning wildlife habitat that Wildlife World has developed for children who have a growing interest in wildlife. The bug box is designed to be placed in the garden to attract ‘beneficial insects’--insects that help to pollinate plants or protect them against pests--for studying and learning. Junior entomologists--and future conservationists--can learn all about insects by observing them in this habitat and completing the 16-page study and project book that comes with the box. As well as its educational benefits, the bug box also has a practical function because, by encouraging beneficial insects into the garden, it can help to keep pest insects under control and boost plant pollination.

The attractive dual-chambered design of the Minibug bug box provides an overwintering habitat for natural aphid predators such as ladybirds, which can each eat more than 4000 aphids in their lifetime. During the spring and summer, the bug box becomes home for solitary bees--non-aggressive garden pollinators--and other beneficial insects. The bug box offers a variety of potential habitats--the top section can be filled with the provided sections of bamboo cane and plastic drinking straws or with other natural ‘tubes’, such as dead plant stems, and the lower section is made from bored solid timber.

Wildlife World Ladybird Food Attractant LFA Twin Pack

Choose a sheltered site close to trees or vegetation or use on beneficial insect house (see ladybird house). Keep cool and dry until use. Simply mix with a small amount of water and smear on feed area or onto ladybird house.