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deal with the pests and it should be available in several weeks. They may be reached at 675-3619.
The ladybug is truly a beneficial insect since it has a voracious appetite for aphids, scales and insect eggs. About 4,000 different species occur in different areas of the world, with about 150 found in the United States. The ladybug has a life cycle that includes a complete metamorphosis similar to a butterfly.
The egg stage hatches into larva that looks like a scaly lizard and is far more beneficial to farmers and orchardists than the adult. It eats at an enormous rate, shedding its exoskeleton several times. When it is ready, the larva changes into a chrysalis that is protected only by its mottled gray wings. The pupa stays suspended for a short time and then emerges as an adult beetle. It mates soon after reaching the adult stage, thus allowing many generations to be produced during one summer.
The name ladybug or ladybird beetle originated during the Middle Ages. In appreciation of their ridding grapevines of insect aphids they were dedicated to “Our Lady.” The rhyme, “Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home. Your house is on fire, your children are home,” comes from the burning of the plants in the fall when ladybugs were still there. It could be adapted today to, “Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home. Get out of my house and leave me alone!”
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