What we know What we want to know

What we know What we want to know • Ladybugs have two antennae, six legs, and three body parts • They eat aphids • They hatch from yellow eggs • The adult ladybugs are red with black spots, but there are some that don’t have spots • Ladybugs belong to the insect family • There are over 4, 000 different kinds of ladybugs • Ladybugs can fly • When enemies try to eat them, the ladybugs play dead • If ants try to attack, ladybugs have special armor to protect them which is their shell • Ladybugs are a kind of beetle • They help plants by eating the aphids • How do they make eggs? • Where exactly do they live, like what kind of plants do they like to live on? • I wonder if they eat plants. Do they eat the aphids first, so the aphids don’t bother them when the ladybugs want to eat the plants? • What are their eyes like? Do the ladybugs see in color or gray? • Are they camouflaged? • I wonder if they hear, and if they do, what is it like? • How long to do they live? • How old can they get? • I wonder how long it takes them to eat one aphid? • I wonder when the babies are in the egg, does the mother go away so they hatch by themselves, or does the mother stay and protect them? • I wonder what it would be like if I was a ladybug? • How big is the mother? • How many aphids can a larvae eat? • Do ladybugs live alone or in groups? • How long can they fly? • How many babies can it have in a day? What we have learned