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A ladybug's favorite food is an aphid, a big pest that hurts many plants by sipping their life-sustaining sap. In one lifetime, each ladybug can eat over 5,000 aphid pests.

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Is a Ladybug an insects?

Ladybugs are insects because all insects have 6 legs and ladybugs have 6 legs, making ladybugs insects. Also ladybugs are carnivores


Are ladybugs important in the world?

Of course they are. Ladybugs eat aphids. Aphids are small insects that suck the sap from plants' stems and leaves, causing them to die. Ladybugs are mostly used in gardens and greenhouses, for biological pest-control. Ladybugs also eat fruitworms, cabbage moths and tomato hornworms.


Do insects eat ladybugs?

No!


What is the ecological cycle of ladybugs?

Most species of ladybugs eat plant-eating insects and aphids are their favorite food. The aphids eat the plants, and the ladybugs eat the aphids. Then, larger insects and birds eat the ladybugs.


The use of ladybugs and praying mantises to consume insect pests in gardens is an example of which?

A biological Control Of Insect Pests. ! (; (*:


Do ladybugs live underground?

No, because they are no insects inside. Lady bugs eat insects that feed on farmers plants. The answer would be no.


Is it safe for ladybugs to eat bread?

Ladybugs are carnivorous, they eat other insects


Do ladybugs eat anything else?

Ladybugs eat other insects and their larvae.


What do all insects used as biological controls include?

aphids, mosquitoes, ladybugs, adn honeybees


What do ladybugs eat in the summer?

Ladybugs eat Aphids, scale insects and plant mites.


What type of animals do ladybugs eat?

Ladybugs feed on small insects, especially aphids.


What family of insects includes ladybugs and fireflies?

the name for the group of ladybugs and fireflies is Coleoptera.