Ladybugs

Yes, ladybugs [Coccinellidae] will eat each other. In fact, cannibalism is a major threat to native ladybug populations in the United States of America. They're being outcompeted for food sources by Asian or Japanese ladybugs [Harmonia axyridis], which consider the natives prey.

I've never known a dog to eat a ladybird, but I've heard that if they eat any KIND OF LADYBIRD nothing will happen to the dog.. :) So you're all safe.

In winter, ladybugs take shelter in your house but if your looking for them out side they usually lady bugs come out in the spring but you may see them around befor then.

several.

they are the same species as bettles

because it looks like a lady when she is flustered

It's original scientific name is Coccinellidae, derived from the Latin coccineus, which means scarlet. The name lady bug originated in Great Britain as "lady bird", where it became known as "Our Lady's Bird". This was because Mary (Our Lady), the Queen, in early paintings had often been shown wearing a red cloak, and the spots on the common seven spot lady bug were supposed to be symbols of her seven joys and seven sorrows. In the US, the name was adapted to lady bug because, well, it's a bug, not a bird.

no, they do not migrate, birds do though. even fish do but not ladybugs

"Ladybug" is a very broad term used for an entire family of beetles (Coccinellidae). There are nearly a hundred genera just in one of the subfamilies (Coccinellinae) within this famly, and several hundred genera in the family as a whole.

Four to seven weeks is the ladybug [Coccinellidaefamily] gestation. There may be one or two offspring, depending upon the particular ladybug type. There may be as many as 1,000 eggs produced over the ladybug's two to three year lifespan.

No but there are species of ladybugs that are entirely black or grey.

how do female lady bugs lay there eggs

no thy make love

Yes, all animals need air.

Some potential predators of the ladybug - such as birds, frogs, wasps, spiders, and dragonflies - have learned to associate certain colors used by ladybugs with a bad taste. Ladybugs also have developed a defense known as "reflex bleeding" which is when a small amount of alkaloid toxin is released through the joints of their exoskeleton. It is triggered by a predator attack. Without their defenses against so many predators, the ladybug population would be wiped out.

they are a symbol of danger to there predators that let them know that they are poisonous and don't taste good. All ladybugs don't have the same amount of spots they are just born with them

You can feed your lady bug a poptart only if it is a certain species, such as the North American Greater Lady bug. Also you have to check if the poptart has no toxic substances to lady bugs. AND PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT THE POPTART HAS NO BOROX IN IT. Also aluminum wrappings can be very toxic to most species of insects and possibly even to lady bugs. So I, in my professional opinion, strongly recommend that you do NOT feed your lady bug a poptart, unless you want to risk it dying.

They have to be as they can not make their own food as plants ( autotrophs ) can do. So, yes.

no, they only have one pair if the wings get pulled off they die

actually, that is incorrect. when i was a child there were quite a few times that i saw a butterfly with a broken wing. i would make then a habitat out of a shoe box and remove the lid. i put in wet cotton balls for the butterfly to drink and fed it leaves each day. within a few weeks the partially broken wings would grow back and i would then free them.

I found a lady bug larvae in my yard and I'm want to watch it turn into a lady bug. I need to feed it and so what does it eat?

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Aphids, mealybugs, and mites. These are VERY tiny insects. You would do the lady bug to be a favor by putting it back in the yard, and letting it find it's own food. It will be very hard for YOU to find the food.

it means good luck. if a real ladybug lands on you it is supposed to bring you luck (like picking up a lucky penny or finding a four leaf clover). Ladybugs symbolize good luck, therefore, you have good luck everywhere you go.

umm i dont think so me and a couple of my friends have started a ladybug farm and the first two that we caught were male and female but we didnt know and when we looked inside the home we made the boy was mating with the girl (not the point) but the boy escaped (after several times of mating) and everytime we added a new lady bug that was a male the ladybug mated with the females and it happened over and over and over again

Invertebrate. Part of the broad Arthropod family.

One can usually find ladybugs at the bases of plants, all grouped together for mating. Or, you can find them on your rosebushes or other garden plants.

Ladybugs can be found in many places around the world. You can find ladybugs on apple trees, because they feed on aphids and aphids hang out on apple tree leaves.

No. Ladybugs (Ladybirds) eat aphids.

they eat many small insects considered as pests by gardeners :) everything serves a purpose no matter how big or small!

Yes, there are beliefs, legends, lore and myths about ladybugs. The insects in question (Coccinellidae family) receive their common name from medieval associations with Our Lady Mary sending them to pest-ravaged European crops. German language-speakers in fact refer to the beloved beneficial as Marienkäfer ([Our Lady] Mary's beetles).