For Christmas, Aunt Jennifer gave the girls a Ladybug Land kit. So it was finally good weather so I sent off for the ladybug larvae. This is what came in the mail about 2 weeks later!
It is hard to see but there are about 10-14 ladybug larvae crawling around in there.
You drop all of them into this Ladybug Land and give them a few drops of water every other day for about 2 weeks and watch them form their cocoons and then emerge into ladybugs!
We had about 8 larvae make it to ladybugs. We kept them in the Ladybug Land for a few days to watch them get their spots (it takes about 12 hours after they come out of their cocoons for their spots to appear) and crawl around.
I know the picture is blurry but I was trying to get an up close of the ladybugs (they are fast!).
Then one day when the weather was perfect we decide to let them go and hopefully eat the aphids around our tomato plants (that is another post coming soon).
Kendall with one ladybug on her forehead! Goof ball!
Taylor letting one crawl up her arm!
Thanks Aunt Jennifer for a fun learning experience!
I am not sure who learned the most the girls or me :)
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