Ladybird World

Our whole family loved this!Once we knew where to find the ophids, we started looking for ladybugs. We were lucky the grass had not been cut for a while due to the Corona epidemic so it was very easy to find ophids and ladybugs.We had the red 7 spotted and the yellow 14spotted ladybird and got very excited when we found eggs. It made us curious if they would be from the Yellow or the red ladybugs. We have seen the Lifecycle of the Yellow ladybirds 3 times. It was a very interesting and educational.We gave one star less because it would have been nice if the lid was made like a big magnifying glass, so it would have been easier for my son to see the little eggs, larves and cocoons. Now I made a photo with my phone because sometimes he did not know where he had to look when I showed him something that was happening inside.We have to free them now as all the grass has been cut in the park and can not find any ophids anymore. My son feels very sad about it, but we wil deffinitly do it again once we find ophids again. Once you know on what plant they life, you see them everywhere

Fun gift with everything in just pay attention to when you buy it, as we have bought it for my daughters birthday and there aren't any ladybirds around anymore.

Very nice for a present,kids enjoyed it.

The idea is great in principle, but it is not well made. The plastic container has only 5 super tiny wholes therefore a very poor aeration, creating lots of condensation and humidity, no wonder you need to empty and clean it every day, this is so unnatural and unnecessary. We moved the ladybirds in a bigger container with a fine net cover and better aeration and they were just fine. So I would say save your money for this kit and do everything yourself (source the ladybirds, which you have to do anyway, and use your own box, that’s pretty much all you need).

I'm in my 20s and enjoying using this tank to observe ladybirds! Over the two months I have owned it, I collected ladybirds from sycamore trees in the local park and they bred, laid eggs, eggs hatched, larvae spent a couple of weeks crawling about the tank eating aphids, one survived to become a pupa and became a bright yellow (now very orange!) adult ladybird once hatched from the pupa. Amazing to observe the lives of these little creatures.Require good deal of care, tank must be kept clean, there is a specimen pot to use to pop your ladybirds in while doing this - you coax them in with a brush (also provided). Collecting aphids (not hard to find under leaves/on stems) is advised, and that's the only way I feed my ladybirds.Ladybirds do crawl out the bigger hole at the top if you do not pop the lid provided on top of it! Some very small larvae can crawl out of small holes too - just remember to cover the holes up while they grow!Reading "it doesn't come with eggs/larvae"... But Nick Baker couldn't have provided the eggs or larvae as the eggs hatch in days and larvae need regular feeding!! So it's highly unrealistic to expect that from this kit, and ladybirds are not hard to find - sycamores are your best bet!Informative guide, all in all, best thing I've purchased in a while, constantly keeps me busy! And rewarding to observe!

The media could not be loaded. What an amazing thing to by, I’ve learnt so much with my 3yo who loves insects and bugs.We got lucky and actually caught a pregnant ladybird who we were only going to keep for a few days... and she laid eggs so we did release her but kept the larvae’s when they hatched... unfortunately we only have 3 left but they are in the next stage of cocooning themselves to them blossom into ladybirds.Don’t get me wrong it’s fun but finding the aphids to feed them was a challenge but one I was determined to do.I would try and get a separate container for the larvae when you need to clean the container out, so that you can put them there briefly to clean and add new plants with aphids on, before then returning the ladybird larvae back into the main container.I got more inventive as the time went by with adding egg cups and more test tubes with other plants in the container for the larvae to explore.

quite small but easy to set up, however we did not find any lady birds and the larvae is so expensive to buy, it arrived as a brand new product as it said it would, I will next time I set it up, buy a small fuchsia as in a young seedling, the aphids love this plant, also it wont wilt like a cutting and the young fuchsia is tiny enough to fit in that box

We bred ladybirds from brought online newly hatched ones -they are pretty fertile and as long as you keep the container lid (with air holes) tightly on, you will enjoy, as they can climb glass and upside down!! They need cleaning out almost daily, as eat loads of aphids, which we had on a fruit bush in the garden. The aphids breed loads too- so it is almost self producing food chain! Recommend for an interesting hobby but we let ours go when it got too much work and now have ladybirds in the garden !