The Butterfly and the ladybug

Ladybugs are very tiny, names for the ladybugs are also called lady birds or lady beetles. These tiny creatures are in the shape of form of oval-shaped winged insects. Ladybugs are usual the color red with black spots on their wings. The many spots represents identifies what type of ladybug it may be.Did you know; that the size of ladybugs are less than 1/4 inch (4-8 mm) long. As the ladybug matures their color fades away, birds are attracted to ladybug's and are a major predator of this insect. The ladybug will play dead if they are threatened.

The tiny insects are attracted to gardens because of the ladybug larvae, the adult ladybugs eats aphids, other sources of nutrients for these tiny insects are mealybugs and mites, which if we noticed they are garden bugs, anybody that grows a garden notices there are tiny little pin wholes I call them, well it is those tiny pests called the mealybugs and mites that are eating are beautiful garden. Although many gardeners hates these bugs and the damage they do to our garden, ladybugs loves them because it is their sources of nutrients and food.

Ladybugs are in the beetle family. similar to type of beetle. Ladybugs larvae eat approximately around twenty-five aphids in one day; the adults however, can eat over fifty. Five thousand different species of ladybugs throughout the whole entire world. The common ladybug species are the orange/red with one black spot on each of their wings.

As we all know just like any other types of insects, ladybugs have six legs that are jointed together, they arranged in three pairs. One pair are the ladybugs antenna's, exoskeleton made of Chaitin( type of a strong protein similar to one forms that forms are hair and fingernails. Then the ladybugs head and body part that consists the head( mouth parts, eye compound, the antennae. Ladybugs heads are very tiny, frequently can be confused with the pronotum. The female ladybugs are however larger than the male ladybugs.

Anatomy:

Ladybugs are winged insects(beetle) when they are not flying wings are covered and protected by a pair of modified wings called elytras. When the ladybugs are flying the their elytras opens up allowing the wings to move, the area is called pronotum, part of their thorax with greyest spots on them. As a young child I would find a jar or some sort of container and go outside to collect ladybugs than I placed them in whatever container I could get my little hands on. I always found ladybugs interesting and beautiful. I can remember when they fly on my arms and I would just look at them for quite awhile. Being so interesting in ladybugs in my childhood years I wanted to learn more about them so I did research on them. Now I know more about them and I believe it was my interest in ladybugs and butterflies is another one that helped me to be interesting learning more and more about all kinds of animals, God's living creatures. Today I love animals. Just like any insects are any of God's living creatures they have stages of life that they go through as humans do.

Humans go through life stages which are infant,toddler,teenage, adult, senior elderly, only God knows the day or our number when he calls us home to be with him in Heaven. The ladybug life stages undergoes a complete metamorphosis during its life as any other sorts of insects life spans. Ladybugs life stages first is the egg, the larva, the pup last the adult stage.

Even though maybe a majority of mankind may think that ladybugs are a nuisance, they are beautiful insects and they do work helping by eating insects off our garden. I read somewhere on a website that ladybugs are a sign of friendship and the butterfly is sign of growth.