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were only sleeping I would have left them alone
to see what happened next, but unfortunately
no more came to rest in my clean curtains.
Later in the summer my cabbages became
infested with white-fly which I attempted to
combat with ladybirds collected from other
plants. These would however have nothing to
do with my aphids and flew off to pastures new
of their own choosing, forcing me to resort to
chemical means to save the crop. Does this
indicate that certain varieties of ladybirds
only feed on certain varieties of aphids?
Florence Caldwell