Most of them are red or yellow with black spots but some are brown or have different colour spots and a few have no spots at all.
A 22-spot lady bird.
A 7-spot ladybird .
A 14- spot ladybird.
Each kind of lady bird has its own pattern of spots.
Lady birds belong to thand othee insect family.
Like all insects they have parts to their body the head the thorax and the abdomen.
Ladybirds have three pairs of legs.
All the parts of the body are covered in a tough case called the exoskeleton .
A lady bird uses its antennae to touch taste and to pick up movements in the air.
Ladybirds are always hungry.
They feed mostly on aphids.
These are the green black or white insects you see on roses and other plants.
Aphids are easy to catch because they move very slowly.
They have soft plump bodies which are full of the juice they suck out of plants.
Like many beetles ladybirds have strong jaws that are good a and chewing biting
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