Ladybugs!
Written and Illustrated By: Dazey Messer
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Ladybugs, How you know them 1
Did you know? 2
Where do ladybugs live? 3
Ladybug’s Predators 4
Ladybug diet 5
Ladybug colors and kinds 6
Ladybugs, How you know them!
Ladybugs are insects. Insects have six legs and three
parts of their body. The head, thorax and a abdomen.
The abdomen is their bottom.
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You know it’s a ladybug by it’s color. They can be red, orange, yellow or
yellowish brown. It can be any of those colors with black spots. They are
symmetrical which means both sides are the same. They can have
different kinds of designs.
Did You Know?
Did you know a long time
ago doctors smashed
ladybugs to put in cavities
to cure a tooth ache?
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In spring the mom ladybeetle lays tiny yellow eggs in a cluster
of ten to fifty. Ladybugs after laid hatch in to two-five days.
Some ladybugs only live to two-three days.
There are five-thousand different kinds of ladybugs and only
three options to call it. They are ladybird, ladybeetle or
ladybug.
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Ladybugs with a lot of spots are good luck. One ladybug can eat to
five-thousand aphids in a lifetime. Depending on species they
can have spots, stripes and non. When a ladybug fly's its wings beat
five-hundred times a minute. Ladybugs in a lifetime lay
one-thousand eggs. Ladybugs will not fly when it’s below fifty-five
degrees Fahrenheit!
Fungus bug
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Lady bird
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A fungus bug looks like a ladybug and that’s what keeps safe
from harm. Ladybugs taste nasty. Ladybugs are light colored to
make birds stay away. Sometimes a ladybug when scared will
play dead. Did you know ladybugs will also suck nectar from
flowers?
Where do ladybugs live?
Ladybugs can live any were that’s not cold. Ladybugs can live
in lamps, trees, bushes, grass, or flowers. Ladybugs could also
come in a house and become a pest or a pet. In winter, they
huddle together in the bark of a tree. Half of the ladybugs will
die if it’s a cold enough winter.
Ladybug predators
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Ladybugs predators are ants. The ants drive away the ladybug to
get to the aphids. If you spray poison on your plants to kill the
bugs than your also killing the ladybugs. Never put poison on your
plants just let ladybugs do the job. Ladybugs will eat the aphids.
Ladybug diet
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A ladybugs diet is mostly aphids and aphids are green flies.
Ladybugs eat roses too. Aphids suck sap from plants. Larva
eats by sticking it’s jaws into the aphid and sucking out the
juices. Big aphids try to get away by kicking the larva of the
plant, falling off the plant or put sticky liquid on the larva’s
head.
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The larva eats hundreds of aphids and gets a little bigger as it
eats. A pupa breaks out of a chrysalis just like a butterfly.
After that it turns to a ladybug. It rests for some time For
it’s wing case to harden and turn to a ladybug color. Then it
fly's away for more Food.
Ladybugs colors and ladybug kind
Eye-Spotted
ladybug
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The Couergen ladybeetle has a pair of white dashes on it’s pfothax. The
seven spotted ladybeetle is named for it’s seven spots. Nine spotted
ladybeetle is named for it’s nine spots. Pine ladybeetle is named for
it’s home in a pine tree. Eye spotted ladybeetle named for it’s spots
that looks like eyes. Twice-stabbed ladybeetle named after it’s two red
spots. Ladybugs have up to twenty-four spots. Ladybugs that have a lot
of spots are good luck.
Resources
.Library think quest
.Backyard Insects By: Millicent E. Selsam and
Ronald Goor and photographs By: Ronald Goor
.I would like to thank Mrs.Debord and
Mrs. Ashley my second grade teachers.
I would like to thank Mrs.DeBord and
Mrs. Ashley, my second grade teachers.
I’m a eight year old second grader
who loves ladybugs. I always thought
ladybugs were fascinating. I have
learned lots of things about ladybugs
from my book. I was born July 11,
2002. I hope you enjoy this book
as much as I did making it.