Beneficial Insects By: Antonio Mesta And Mario Hislop
The ladybug is one of the most popular beneficial insects it feeds on bugs like aphids that are very harmful to farmers crops and are a good alternative to pesticides that can harm the crops Ladybug(Coccinellidae)
Food source Ladybugs diet consists of mites pollen water and aphids ladybugs in their small lifetime can eat up to 5000 aphids
Lifespan Ladybugs although seeming small and frail live up to a year in the wild
Beneficial Ladybugs are beneficial because they eat crop eating bugs like aphids from farmers crop
Harmful effects Some harmful things ladybugs do is leaving toxic on animals they also lay hundreds of eggs on their colonies so they can infest an area rather quickly
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