Are ladybugs eating my blackberries?
Akchin
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We have thornless blackberries that we planted a few years ago. Last year was the first year they started producing and we lost a lot of berries. It appeared to me that ladybugs were eating them, but I have always heard that ladybugs are beneficial and bug-eaters. I have never heard of them destroying berry crops. The plants are looking to be very prolific this year, so I would like to get this figured out before they start to ripen. Is it possible that the ladybugs were eating my berries or is there another explanation?
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ladybirds are strict carnivores - they will be there eating whatever's eating your blackberries
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I'd guess birds.
You'd need jolly big ladybirds to take on the blackbirds and woodies
Also don't forget field and harvest mice ... they'll take the fruit ... and foxes, badgers ....... and labradors will take lower growing blackberries
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.