Ladybugs Pt 3 With today’s Fruit Grower Report, I’m Bob Larson. Aphids may be little, but the damage they can wreak on your fruit trees is not. You could try to get rid of them with pesticides, but that may take several applications. A natural solution may be ladybugs that love to eat aphids. northwest Beneficials’ Chris Morris says they can supply them by the gallons … MORRIS … “A gallon is, literally is a dry-bulk gallon that is just all ladybugs. We transport them in kind of a cotton bag that is about 24 by 30 inches in size and contains one gallon of ladybugs. And that is about 72,000 ladybugs per gallon approximately.