THE VOICE OF SHADOW LAKE
A Photo Journal &Work In Progress
 Documenting The Wildlife of Shadow Lake, Lilburn, Georgia

 

    

Beetle, Ladybug

Ladybird Beetle -- common name for any of about 6,000 species of brightly colored beetles found in temperate and tropical regions throughout the world....
 
Ladybird beetles, or ladybugs, have had their name since the Middle Ages, when people looked upon them as a gift from the Virgin Mary because of their miraculous eating habits. As both larvae and adults, ladybugs feed on aphids and other agricultural pests. In the late 19th century, California farmers released ladybugs to save the fruit crop from devastation by the cottony-cushion scale insect.

 

Lucy Ladybug

      

 

 
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