Ladybugs

Introduce beneficial insects like ladybugs or plant marigolds that are known to deter certain pests.

Shilling’s upcoming solo exhibition of paintings and ceramics, “A Bug’s Life” at Jeffrey Deitch Los Angeles in April, will feature “spring themes” such as frogs, flora and fauna, ladybugs, caterpillars and butterflies.

Once the ladybugs take care of the hatchlings, aphids aren't even a thought for a whole year.

A huge blob that appeared on the National Weather Service’s radar wasn’t a rain cloud, but a massive swarm of ladybugs over Southern California.

Any bug really — beetles, ladybugs, sometimes worms.

Hopefully they're the nice, red ladybugs and not those evil, orange posers that bite.

Oswant says the spotter told them the mysterious cloud was actually a giant swarm of ladybugs.

The ladybugs were reportedly flying between 5,000 and 9,000 feet high according to the Los Angeles Times.

But the more beneficial flying insects of summer — native bees, moths, butterflies, ladybugs, lovebugs, mayflies and fireflies — appear to be less abundant.

Students were dressed for the occasion in the likeness of ladybugs, wearing red and black colors and antennae.

While he emphasized he had not proved this, he said he believed the difference was due to some attribute of the music making it more difficult for the ladybugs to find the aphids.

One of the best, and widely known, examples are the ladybugs or ladybirds (family Coccinellidae ).