Ladybugs Pt 1 With today’s Fruit Grower Report, I’m Bob Larson. Many children think of them as the absolute cutest of the insect family, but they are also a ruthless killer that can play a big roll in keeping your orchard healthy. Northwest Beneficials’ Chris Morris says his company distributes ladybugs to Northwest growers every year … MORRIS … “We start off in the spring shipping our ladybugs for aphid control to a lot of fruit orchards in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. So, we’re going to be taking our first loads out, in fact, for the early applications all over Central Washington.”