I am pleased as can be about the sexytime being had in the backyard garden!

We “rescued” a large quantity of ladybugs from certain death at my grandmother’s rural, unoccupied home on our day off about two weeks ago. There were nearly one thousand of them swarming in the corner of the screened in porch, unable to escape. The door was no where nearby. We tried guiding them out, but they seemed destined to wind up as crackling dry shells n the floor like so many before them. That is, until I had the bright idea to bring out the vacuum!

We emptied several canister’s worth of lady bugs into the yard, with instructions to NOT reenter to porch. Several were forced into a large zip bag which I brough home and relased into my flower beds, where aphids were feasting on sweet, tender growth, also known as my roses (which are already covered in new buds). I haven’t seen too many in the past coulpe days. Just lots of hot ladybug action. The males even wiggle frantically at some point (don’t want to know if that’s a climax)! I felt dirty taking their pictures.