Beneficial Insects like Ladybird (which eat aphids, scale insects, mealy bugs and spider mites) can be encouraged using this food/attractant into a garden area or Natural Predator Box. Use from early Spring onward, food will last up to four months; keep cool and dry and mix a small amount with a drop of water in a saucer and smear on feed area or onto Predator Box feed hole or surfaces. Ladybird food is non toxic and not harmful to the environment Formulated by Specialists. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN One Ladybird may eat over 4000 Aphids in its life.