Ladybugs

"Red, fiery, and bright"

Ladybugs
By Mia Posada
Copyright 2002
Carolrhoda Books, Inc
School Aged Kids
Non Fiction
28 Pages

Lady bugs are littel round beetles with read coats and black spots, the like to crawls through graden, trees and flowers.  Lady bugs are harmless, they just crawls around looking for tiny green insects call aphids- that is what they eat.  Lady bugs lay their eggs on a leaf in the shade, the start off yellow and turn white after five days.  The things that hatch out of the eggs are not lady bug look alikes, but larva and they spend their days searching for food.  The larva that to shead their skin so they can keep growing.  When the larva is almost grown it attaches itself to something and molts one last tme and has bevome a pupa (kinda like a caterpillars cacoon. it starts rounding out and after five days it comes out of its shell and looks like a lady but, just discolored.  Soon the red starts coming in and the spots start to aper.  Soon the lady bug learns to fly, and it is free.  There is also so much more information on ladybugs.

This book is a good book to have in a classroom or also at home.  It is more in story form for kids to enjoy as a story and not just a lot of information. 

I dont think there is anything wrong with this books

I enjoyed this book, I learned so much about lady bugs, I liked it better then the two books before this because it was more in story for with an information thing at the end so I was able to read and learn rather then have a lot of information thrown at me, so this would even be better for younger kids then the other books.