The Sixth and B gardeners were really buggin’ out!

Photos by Tequila Minsky

Last month, green thumbs at Sixth and B Garden in the East Village released 16,000 mail-ordered ladybugs. The bugs, with their distinctive, black-spotted red wings, were set free in the gardens’ raised beds and among its trees and plants. Gardeners of all ages joined in to help spread around the Coccinellids (their technical name), which are a natural pesticide against plant-eating aphids.