LadyBugs Characteristics

• They're invertebrates, they don't have bones.
• They have a size between 5 and 10 millimeters.
• Take advantage of daylight to feed (they are daytime)
• Although they can be found of many colors and different patterns of dots, their main color is black.
• The bright colors mean that they have a bad taste and this pushes away their predators.
• They hibernate during the winter and leave in the spring.
• They meet in groups to protect themselves from the cold when they have to hibernate.

LadyBugs is Beneficial or Detrimental in Agriculture?

They are very beneficial in agriculture because they feed on aphids or mites that are detrimental to plants.

Ladybugs are very important because they can maintain an ecological balance, in which it is not necessary to use certain poisons or insecticides in the orchards to fight other pests.

Its Reproduction

The female ladybug can place up to 400 eggs in the leaves where they are aphids or mites, so that when these hatch in the months of April and may the larvae can feed on the mites that are there while growing and become adult .

The seven-point ladybug differs from other varieties because it lays yellow eggs, hatch in April and May, leaving to see his body elongated and blue and yellow.

Its Habitat

They can be found in the park, in the garden, on the farm, in the countryside, or in any part of the world where there is vegetation and flora; These can be seen in plants flowers and leaves where commonly they are feeding on aphids, after having fought the plague they leave in search of more food.