Who does not remember the little ladybird, honey, bug?That's what we call childhood cute bugs in "red livery" in black spots.Ladybugs in different cultures were symbols of many things, but most of all - good luck.
Ladybird - a small bug, which consists of 3 parts: head, thorax and abdomen.There she had wings and wing flaps, and another 6 his short legs attached to the thorax.The larva of a ladybug is absolutely not similar to their adult counterparts.Looking at her, you would think that is a totally different kind of insect.There are many different ladybugs in the world.They vary in size, color and texture.Their length from 1 to 10 mm, depending on the species of ladybird.Females are larger than males.
egg laying and larval emergence
Usually, the female lays up to 1,000 eggs in a few months.Place stack - the underside of leaves, 10 to 50 eggs each.And at the same time formed a colony of aphids, which are food for adults and offspring appeared.A week and a half (all dependent on natural conditions) the eggs appear caterpillars little dark.The larva of a ladybug eats the remains of shell eggs from which it has just come out.To eat and how to increase the survival rate in the first days of existence, she eats are a number of "houses of relatives."It is believed that each clutch is unfertilized eggs, that the larva eats them and ladybug.During the growing season it is a "shed", a lot of eating, growing, pupate and turn into adults.Typically, the cycle lasts for six weeks.
What is the larva of a ladybug?
Okuklivayas larva creates a cocoon and remains unprotected and it seems that she just lifeless.But in this period is the transformation of the most difficult process of transformation into an adult insect - ladybird.It is kind of unusual and not so charming as the adult.The larva changes its cover four times.This is because it does not increase the skin with it.Therefore, it discards the old, and under it the larva of a ladybug is a new one.Baby grows, gaining weight, there are spots and bumps and more transparent legs.But the larva is blind and yet she continues to eat, examining one plant after another, finding colonies of aphids.Time passes, and begins to prepare for pupation gained weight and grown up larva of a ladybug.Photos of the pupae attached to plant its tail - a great find for lovers of wildlife photography.
Migratory liqueurs omye
was born juveniles live until the fall on their lands, destroying aphids, small insects, mites, and then fly to winter in the mountains.It would seem that they do there among the rocks, and without food?But not flying ladybugs to eat, and to spend the winter huddled in cracks, crevices, under stones and numb, stay there until spring.And when the sun begins to warm, ladybugs return to their homes, to repeat the life cycle.
