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From: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
Newsgroups: can.general,ont.general,rec.gardens
Subject: Re: Ladybugs
Message-ID: <276@sickkids.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 89 10:57:48 GMT
References: <272@sickkids.UUCP>
Reply-To: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
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Organization: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
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In article <272@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
[ hey, that's me! ] writes:

>    if anyone out there knows of a source for live ladybugs
>  [ ... ]  I'd appreciate hearing about it.  Thanks in advance.

Since I received a couple requests to post any information I got, here's the
latest on the ladybug scene ...

I got two replies (one posted by Anthony Scian <afscian@violet.waterloo.edu>,
and one via e-mail from Barbara Brunson <barb@ai.toronto.edu>; thanks, folks!),
both pointing me to Richter's Gardens in Goodwood (416/640-6677).  Their price
is $20 for a half-pint (approximately 4500 ladybugs), or $100 for a gallon.

I phoned my order in last Wednesday, and it arrived the following afternoon.
They even pay shipping.  I've put out half of the little critters, and they're
now happily munching away at my aphids.

Mark Bartelt                          UUCP: {utzoo,decvax}!sickkids!mark
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto   BITNET: mark@sickkids.utoronto
416/598-6442                          INTERNET: mark@sickkids.toronto.edu