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Ladybugs
Also known as ladybirds and lady beetles, ladybugs are beetles belonging to the family Coccinellidae. This family of over 5,000 species can be found worldwide and some species are considered garden pests. Questions about ladybugs can be found here.
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Is a ladybug a predator or does it prey on other animals?
Coccinellidae or ladybugs prey on other insects. This makes them predators. Larger animals feed on ladybugs as well, making them prey as well as predator.
Note: By definition, a predator preys on other animals, making the second part of the question redundant.
Ladybugs are not poisonous to humans, and they would not bite you.Infact they are good for your garden.Some people buy boxes of them.Also the ladybugs eat bad bugs that do not belong in your wonderfull GARDEN. By loving Dog
Why do ladybugs need a wing cover?
Because insect wings are delicate. Most of the beetles (to which ladybirds belong) have a hard protective cover over their wings, to protect them from damage as the insect moves. This Keratin covering is tough and weatherproof.
What do ladybugs eat beside aphids?
they eat honey mixes with water, sugar and water on a sponge, bred crumbs, raisons, bannanas, and other non-acidic fruits. Also put water on a damp paper towel for them to drink
How do you keep ladybugs from flying?
take their black thin wings off
P.S. NOT THE ONES THAT ARE RED WITH POLKA DOTS
What shall you feed your new pet ladybird?
I have lots of living ladybirds at home.
I have not figured out a way to feed them but minerainsins are great.
Have water for them too.
In the winter they hibernate so you might be able to find some in your house.
They won't live for long so don't get attached to them.
But the more you get the happier they'll be!
So the longer she'll or he'll live.
Ladybugs wash themselves only on Bank Holiday Mondays.
Why don't vectors contract the disease they carry?
To start.. the reason is evolution, based on the selective pressures that favor the vector's survival. This is not a conscious decision or planned strategy of the bacteria/virus/vector, it is what worked the best and spread the most quickly. What works best has the best reproduction rates and is therefore the most abundant and over time dominates the other strains of a disease. ok. here is the reason and the explaination. Well, the vectors do contract the disease, some human diseases seem to not affect the vector and others will affect the vector especially behavorally (look at rabies). But usually the vector is an insect and the the reason it doesn't affect the life of the vector is understadable. In short, if the disease killed or greatly harmed the main source of distribution it would die out quickly, by leaving the vector relatively unharmed the disease itself has a greater chance to be spread and to reproduce in acceptable areas. The selective pressures involved with high reproduction rates will surely favor those diseases that keep their hosts alive to spread, it can reproduce high amounts inside the human but does not need to in the mosquito and it would make the reproduction of the disease and range of the vector significantly lower. more specific.. When the bacteria or virus is in the vector it is at a different time of the bacteria/virus' lifecycle that allows the vector to live a somewhat normal life. Using malaria as an example... The gametes which are haploid are taken into the mosquito and fuse once in a suitable environment (the mosquito gut in this case) to form a diploid zygote (ookinete)this is the next step in the diseases' life cycle. Now the fused structure burrows into the lining of the gut to migrate to the salivary glands and multiply. Once the mosquito bites another host then the disease is injected with other proteins created by the mosquito intended to keep the wound from closing while feeding. The vector stays alive long enough to spread the disease, and now the disease can multiply rapidly in the human and spread to other mosquitos and then other humans. The mosquito is necessary to the survival and spread of the disease, where as humans are not needed to spread the disease amongst themselfs so it is benefical to reproduce rapidly at the expense of killing the host (because the offspring will be spread even if the host dies).
Would ladybirds lay eggs on netting of trampoline?
Probably not. A trampoline is made up of a series of fine lines which the ladybird would find hard to walk on( or fall through them), let alone lay eggs.
A few of them feed on plants, but most ladybirds eat aphids or scale insects.
If you are keeping one as a pet, they will eat anything green; they also eat raisins.
Ladybugs sometomes eat aphids, but are not known to eat bed bugs.
Why are ladybugs called ladybugs but they are not all ladies?
That the ladybug (Coccinellidae family) is of the same color of red as the cloak of Our Lady Mother of Jesus of Nazareth (7-2 B.C. - 30-36) and that its seven spotssymbolize Mary's seven joys and seven sorrows in life is one explanation for the name.
Specifically, the beetle in question is the seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata). Not all ladybugs are red in color. Not all ladybugs are limited to just seven spots.
How did the seven spotted ladybug get its name?
Because ladys dress with clothing that might have poka dots, and it is a bug.
