lady beetles

Then the beetle stepped down into the rich mud, where sat three young lady beetles, who tittered, because they did not know what to say.

Diapause is a key strategy for the lady beetles to avoid the unfavorable conditions and synchronize their development with the environments.

Lady beetles are a natural control for aphids. Aphids are tiny insects that develop colonies on plants and eat plant fluids.

Beneficial insects can also be found in these vertical gardens including lady beetles, assassin bugs, and syrphid flies.

There was a pupa of one kind of lady beetles on a leaf.

in the southern unites state , asian lady beetles have reduced the need for farmers to use pests killing poisons on pecan trees.

Experts say Asian lady beetles may appear in large numbers in some years. But they say the insects are too helpful to considered pests.

Many of the well- known kinds of lady beetles come from Asia or Europe . They now are common throughout the United States .

on the high nitrogen fertilizer region, lady beetles has the most to the aphis, next is parasitoids, the third is green lacewings.

They often have black spots , though some have light colored spots . Different kinds of lady beetles have different numbers of spots .

Species diversity of lady beetles in the suburbs of Nanchong City, Sichuan