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ladybugs help the Christmas trees grow healtly

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Ladybugs are natural predators. Their primary diet is aphids( but some species of ladybugs also eat mites and scale) which can destroy crops and home garden plants. Ladybugs help the world by eating the pest bugs.

They are voracious eaters - according to research done at the University of Kentucky, one ladybug will eat about 5,000 aphids in it's lifetime.

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