🐞 by Carla Zarrouk Ramírez

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:25:17 UTC

What is a ladybug?

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:29:52 UTC

They are insects with a rounded body and often bright aposematic colorations, the coloration presents high intraspecific variability, controlled by changes in a single gene.

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:31:28 UTC

What do they eat?

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:34:57 UTC

They can feed on the leaves, seeds or fruits of many plant species, such as lettuce.

What do they eat ?

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:36:40 UTC

They can feed on the leaves, seeds or fruits of many plant species, such as lettuce.

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:40:18 UTC

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:41:49 UTC

They also eat scale insects, mealybugs, whiteflies, aphids, mites, eggs of other insects, larvae or caterpillars, and some are even cannibalistic.

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:45:59 UTC

Where they live?

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:47:16 UTC

There are ladybugs that live almost anywhere there are aphids, such as in meadows, forests, fields, gardens or wetlands.

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:48:33 UTC

How do they reproduce?

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:50:19 UTC

They reproduce attached to tree branches, leaves or trunks.

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:50:42 UTC

carlazarrouk — 2022-05-18 11:51:24 UTC

They lay yellow eggs one by one or placed in groups on leaves or stems, usually in the vicinity of colonies of aphids, colors depending on the species.