{"id":3694,"date":"2011-05-29T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T03:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2011-05-29T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T03:55:55","slug":"never-buy-ladybugs-on-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/never-buy-ladybugs-on-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Never buy ladybugs on sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_62521.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3695\" title=\"IMG_6252\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_62521-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_62521-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_62521.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, I bought a carton of ladybugs at the nursery. They&#8217;re supposed to be good for the garden and they were on sale so I decided to try it. The package said it contained 1,500 ladybugs. The top was vented so they could breathe and I could see some movement inside. You&#8217;re supposed to release them in the evening when they&#8217;re less likely to fly away. Oh right&#8230;they have wings&#8230; they can fly. But out of 1,500, if half flew away, I&#8217;d be in ladybug heaven. So last night, I slowly opened the carton to let them go, afraid they&#8217;d all make a run for it. But no. They were in one sticky mass in the bottom of the carton, not moving much, resembling a giant meatball. So I shook the carton and spread them around my garden (mostly in lumps) and then night fell.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I went out with my camera expecting to spend the whole day taking ladybug pictures as they filled the air, flying from flower to flower in my magical garden. How would I decide which ones to shoot? \u00a0It was an easy decision &#8211; I found two. What happened? Where did they go? \u00a01,498 ladybugs gone! How do I know the one on the daisy was from the box? Maybe he flew in from next door. Hey, isn&#8217;t he missing some spots? \u00a0Never buy ladybugs on sale. They must have been seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I bought a carton of ladybugs at the nursery. They&#8217;re supposed to be good for the garden and they were on sale so I decided to try it. The package said it contained 1,500 ladybugs. The top was vented so they could breathe and I could see some movement inside. You&#8217;re supposed to release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dear-diary","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3706,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}