All got used to call these bugs "God's cows", but researchers call them Latin Coccinellidae, sincerely being perplexed from where this "divine" communication appeared.
The most widespread species of a bug with red wing sheaths and a black bitmap is tenderly called "ladybug". It is difficult to find the person who would not hear about these insects, but whether many people know about them?
On beauty the ladybug can be compared to butterflies, and the most interesting, as they are born almost equally!
The birth of this insect takes not so not enough time: one-two months. It is called life cycle. At a ladybug it has four stages. It: - egg stage,
- a stage of a larva, - a stage of a doll
- a growing stage - final.
Egg stageThe first stage is a stage of egg. A ladybug, laying eggs, tries to secure the posterity. For this purpose the female hides eggs of future bugs on a reverse side of leaves. So they are not visible to insects and other predators. The interesting feature is that mom for the children looks for such place where there is a lot of a plant louse that after birth they had a livelihood initially.
Stage of a larva
And there pass one-two weeks, and from eggs larvae hatch, so, there came the second stage. Larvae of a ladybug are quite mobile, have enviable appetite, eating from first minutes of life of egg of a plant louse and them just otrodivshiyesya larvae. This stage lasts about a month, for this time the larva reaches centimeter in length.
The third stage of a doll
The ladybug is fixed on a plant leaf. She turns into a motionless doll who hardens and gains brown color. It has quite strong cover, in one or one and a half weeks it will burst and the bug will appear.
Growing stage
The fourth stage comes together with birth of a little bug which we tenderly call "sun". At last we see a ladybug habitual to us who can fly now. And having a little waited until its wings get stronger, she will disappear from your sight in search of food.
Very few people know how these bugs are important for kitchen gardens. The ladybug the true defender of plants, she eats wreckers, such as plant louse and web tick.
In the fall ladybugs will hide in secluded places to winter. For example, under bark, in the fallen-down foliage, in a warm moss. In the spring when everything blossoms, they will appear again and will please with the bright dress. However the wintering is endured not by all therefore it is considered to be that on average the ladybug lives from 10 to 12 months though actually life cycle can last up to one and a half years.