A #ladybug preparing for takeoff
They can eat up to 5,000 aphids in their lifetime, making them natural pest controllers!
In some cultures they’re associated with luck
They can eat up to 5,000 aphids in their lifetime, making them natural pest controllers!
In some cultures they’re associated with luck
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What an appetite!
They're so adorable.
I presumed their red/black shell was their wings!!
This is #beautiful 😍
I need more of those and fewer aphids this year!
I'd get a tin like the Danish cookies one, stab holes in the lid, put grass inside and go collect ladybirds and put them inside with the lid on loose
Would give them a few days or so in the tin then open it back up to see if they'd mated and laid eggs
Also, ladybugs are pollinators. Not only are they good for your garden by eating pests, they help pollinate.
I've never seen them before!!
I always thought their orange "shells" were their wings.
Thank you for sharing this most beautiful video of nature at its best -- doing its thing.
Try 23 billion of the little pest controllers, in the summer of 1976.
BBC News - Could the ladybird plague of 1976 happen again?
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35603972
"Pilot to co-pilot, release the shells"
"Released shells"
"Unfurl flight sails"
"Sails unfurled"
"Aaaand... takeoff!"
And wow, I had no idea that cute red-n-black shell was not the wing, but hid the wing!
Any other bug, NO way. Lady bugs = magical. We considered them a good luck charm for our trip.
Cool video!
And square !
Very cool.
I've been reading that the Asian or Japanese beetles are overtaking ladybugs. They are so similar. I hope it doesn't happen.
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The info
The flair
Truly fascinating:
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/how-ladybug-folds-giant-wings.htm
😫😫😫😫
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Watch out aphids, here comes another strafing run!
One of the several from earlier today in my garden 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkdry54C0oU
Here’s an article describing the differences
https://www.bhg.com/gardening/pests/animal/ladybug-asian-beetle-difference/