Ladybug Is A Predator And Vegetarian

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

In addition to the many enemies of the gardener who encroach on the fruits of his labor, he also has many disinterested helpers. Among them, Ladybugs, a thunderstorm of the ubiquitous gluttonous aphid, stand out for their bright outfit

Winged beauty of god

In the Latin and Russian names of the beetle, many different components are intertwined.

Its red back was first taken as the basis of the Latin name, since part of this name translated into Russian means “

scarlet ».

Then she was compared to

red cloak of the virgin mary, in which the Mother of the Son of God was dressed by the artists in the early icons. Seven black dots have become the personification of the joys and sorrows of the Mother of God, of which there are 7 pieces each.

All the joys and sorrows of Mary, of course, are associated with the life of her son, whom the Father himself could not save from a painful death. All joys fall on the childhood years of Christ, and sorrows - on the last days of Jesus' stay on our sinful Earth. About how Maria endured the torment of her only son, Anna Akhmatova spoke most eloquently of all in four simple lines that cannot be read without tears in her eyes: “… And where Mother stood silently, no one dared to look.”

Since the torment of Jesus Christ culminated in his resurrection, the scarlet ladybug is associated more with joy than with sadness. People are very fond of the beetle, which is considered a sinful deed to crush.

ladybug - the insect is omnipresent, numerous and many-sided. Its back is not always painted red, but can be yellow, gray, brown, blue and even black. The spots can also be of different shades, or even completely absent from the so-called "pointless ladybugs".

The diversity of the beetle habitat forms a peculiar attitude towards food in the ladybirds. She turns some into predators devouring insect species different from herself, others make vegetarians. Everything, like people, or people, like beetles.

Number of stains

Have you ever tried to count the number of black peas on the red background of the beetle's wings?

Indeed, by the number of spots, you can find out which species of the numerous community of Godbirds belongs to the one that peacefully planted on your hand and tickles the skin, fingering with its 4-segmented legs. You will frighten her away with a careless movement, her hard bright elytra will rise, like the hood and trunk of a car, transparent wings will open and she will fly in search of a more pleasant seat, leaving on her hand an orange drop of her “milk” with a pungent smell that scares away the enemies of the Ladybug.

The most ubiquitous ladybugs are the seven-spotted beetles. It is they and their larvae with excellent appetite that eat the whitish sedentary aphid and its offspring, and also will not refuse to eat with worms, spider mites, scale insects, which are very annoying to farmers.

Seven-spot ladybugs - friends and assistants of the gardener, take care of them.

But not all ladybugs are predatory insects that eat crop pests. Some prefer plant foods, thereby becoming enemies of the gardener.

If you count

28 points there is a bug on the convex back, which means that a colleague of the Colorado potato beetle, who feeds on the leaves of tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes, has come to visit. Such a ladybug will not cause tenderness on your face. And its name is appropriate -"

potato lady ”, Although at a cursory glance it looks very much like an American glutton.

The ladybug with

24 points on a rounded back, which can feast on plantings of sugar beets or alfalfa. That is why they call it “

alfalfa ladybug ».

Some of the ladybirds have been stripped of the spots on the elytra by nature.

Pointless ladybird took offense at the world and became a vegetarian. In the wild, it feeds on plants of the Cereals family: Mannik and Canary grass. When invading the fields where a person grows food for domestic animals, the pointless ladybug will surely "bite" the leaves of Donnik, Clover or Alfalfa.