Can ladybugs eat rotten fruit

Answer 1

ummm NO!

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Ladybugs can only eat non-acidic fruit. The safest ones are strawberries, and rehydrated apricots and raisins. The best food for them in captivity is a sugar water mixture (1 part sugar to 10 parts water) or you can use hummingbird nectar mix. The nectar mix does provide more vitamins that then sugar water, but make sure you don't mix up big batches because it only keeps for about a week. Soak a few cottonballs in the food mixture and put them in empty caps from juice jugs. Make sure you change the cottonballs once a week, and add to them in-between if necessary. And, make sure you keep regular drinking water at all times. Do not use distilled water...use Spring water, if possible, or use water that has been boiled and sat for 24 hours. Put a few small pebbles in a juice cap and keep the water level just full enough do that they can use the stones for safety. Do not just put a capful of water or it can be real easy for them to drown.

Answer 2

perhaps they will eat fruit flies but their main diet is June bugs. but it could be possible fruit flies are not in a ladybug's diet. also, you spelled fruitflys wrong. it's fruit flies.

Answer 3

There is nothing ladylike about a ladybug's appetite: an adult may eat up to 75 aphids per day! They also eat other harmful insects like fruit flies, thrips, mites, and other plant-sucking insects. Although not all ladybugs are carnivorous, the predatory ones are very helpful to gardeners because they do not damage crops while filling their bellies. In fact, they provide pest removal services that many growers use instead of pesticides. For this reason, ladybugs can be purchased from many suppliers.

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

No