Ladybug Larva
Sing it with me! The ladybug larvae on the bus go… um… they go… um…
What do the ladybug larvae on the bus do?
Reader Michelle from the UK sent this picture in right after ladybug vs. aphid week, and I wish I’d gotten it up at the time, because Ladybugs were totally taking the “we’re cute!” title and the aphids would have LOVED to enter this photo in the “but your babies are ohmygoodness ugly” category.
The ladybugs would have simply smiled. That might be a bug only a mother could love, but guess what? Ladybug larvae eat aphids, too. RAWR! (Admittedy, it’s a very tiny RAWR.)
THAT’S what the ladybug larvae on the bus do!
The ladybug larvae on the bus make the tiniest RAWR!, the tiniest RAWR!, the tiniest RAWR!
The Macnut said,
July 1, 2008 @ 6:24 pm
“The ladybug larvae on the bus make the tiniest RAWR!, the tiniest RAWR!, the tiniest RAWR!”
And eat aphids all day…….
b13 said,
July 1, 2008 @ 8:32 pm
It gets REALLY freaky when they connect to a leaf and “bloat” as they transform into the little ladies…
SamWibatt said,
July 9, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
Cool!
One of my few moments of teaching a child something nifty was when my niece discovered one of these and asked me what it was. Easy to express: “You know how butterflies start out as caterpillars? Ladybugs start out as those.” She was pretty amped to find out about this little mystery of Life.