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A Natural Way to Fight Pests - in the US
October 21, 2007 at 3:13 PM
Environmental Health
From mesh bags filled with wood shavings, groundskeepers scattered Thursday the red-and-black bugs which quickly took to the skies of the 80-acre rental complex at the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village complex on Manhattan's East Side.
In the next days and weeks, they are expected to crawl into plants, flowers and shrubs in search of insects whose smell attracts them — soft-bodied, leaf-sucking aphids and mites.
Buying the bugs means the complex's owner, Tishman Speyer, can avoid using chemical insecticides.
"In most cases, we reach for a can of pesticide — and we kill not only the 'bad guys,' but the 'good guys,'" said Eric Vinje, owner of Planet Natural, which supplied the pest-killers for Manhattan.
"All we're doing here is putting more of the 'good guys' to tip the scale," he said.
On its Web site, the company offers "Live Ladybugs — Free Shipping!" at $16.50 for 2,000.
This species of ladybug — Hippodamia convergens — converges in the wilderness, where they are harvested.
Vinje buys them from ladybug collectors working the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Oregon, California and Montana.
In Bozeman, he keeps them alive in large refrigerators where the temperature is kept to about 35 degrees.
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