Last night while Cory was grilling, Joshua our little nature lover discovered a ladybug on the house. As they looked around they noticed a few other ladybugs on the siding along the back of the house. Today as Joshua and I were outside feeding the birds we were surprised to see lots of ladybugs all over the siding of the house. Joshua grabbed one of his bug boxes and off we went collecting ladybugs. We collected somewhere around 40 and there were still some out of our reach that we couldn't catch. This afternoon during Matthew's nap Joshua and I searched the internet to see what we could learn about ladybugs, since I don't have very many kids books we could gather information from. We learned that ladybugs are different colors - red, orange, pink, yellow, green, brown, black and one site said blue - to ward off predators. We also learned that ladybugs hibernate when it is below 55 degrees outside, which explains why we've seen them today and yesterday with the warmer temps. Other things we learned were that they are actually beetles instead of insects and that their proper name is really lady beetles instead of ladybugs. I even found a video on the life cycle of a ladybug so we could watch it go from egg to larva to pupa to ladybug. Thankfully one site told us that if keeping ladybugs as short-term pets we should provide them with water on a cotton ball or paper towel and give them moistened raisins or other non-citrus fruits to feed from. There are lots of little facts we learned via the many websites we visited and Joshua loved them all. Then he got his journal out and drew ladybugs while watching the ones in his bug box. Love this age of being so curious about the little things in life and taking joy in them!
Observing and drawing in his journal.
He decided to make a green ladybug instead of a red or orange like we collected.
Green Ladybug
Two colorful ladybugs.
He asked how to write ladybug.
The final product. A red, blue, green and pink ladybug each on there own leaf.(not sure why this uploaded in the wrong direction, but I can't seem to correct it)
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