Ladybug Land

I hesitate to even make this entry, but we'll give it a try ... We ordered ladybug larvae to put in Emily's Ladybug Land and it arrived yesterday. Emily was excited so we got everything all set up for her and put the ladybug larvae in the dome last night. We decided to take pictures to document the changes that we saw as it sounds like a fun process.

Well, 24 hours in and I haven't seen one of these things even flicker in movement. At first I figured that was okay, but reading more I'm thinking not. We'll give it some more time, but we may be cleaning this dome out and ordering more ladybug larvae.

Or maybe we'll got back to the butterflies. They seemed to arrive alive and we were able to keep them alive.

I am just bummed as normally we get the mail much earlier, but last night we didn't get home until about 7pm. I suspect that sitting in the mailbox for about 8 hours in that heat didn't help the ladybugs chances of survival.