LADYBUG LIFE CYCLE
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
LADYBUG LIFE CYCLE WHEEL
HOW TO USE
Print, cut out and laminate the printable a LADYBUG life cycle wheel. (or paste in a card stock for durability)
Show each stage to your students and explain to them the development in each stage.
Print and give your students a copy and let them do their own LADYBUG life cycle wheel.
For older students (LADYBUG life cycle wheel activity)
Divide the class depending on the number of students.
Decide which group goes first.
Have the representative from the group spin the spinner.
Note where the spinner indicator lands. (eggs, larva, pupa, ladybug) and pose a question about that area to the group. If the group answers the questions correctly, award it a point.
Then have the next group turn the spinner and ask the group a related question. Give a point if the question answered correctly.
Give each group five chances. In case of a tie, choose a life cycle stage and ask a question. Each of the group participating in the tie breaker write down the answer. Give a point for each correct answer.
Recognize all the students for their participation.
LADYBUG BOARD GAME
Learning objectives
The students will be able to familiarize the terminology in the life cycle of a ladybug.
To be able to follow given directions.
To identify stages of the life cycle of a ladybug through game.
HOW TO USE THE CARDS
How to play
Place the counter on "START".
Take turns rolling the die and moving the counters.
Say the terminology of the ladybug life cycle on the heart.
If the counter lands on BLACK HEART, move the counter 2 spaces backward.
If the counter lands on RED HEART move the counter 2 spaces forward.
The first to reach the FINISH is the winner.
LADYBUG CARDS
OBJECTIVE
Help the students visualize the life cycle of a ladybug.
HOW TO USE THE CARDS
These could be laminated back to back or individually.
Show each card to your students and explain each stage of the ladybug life cycle development.
LADYBUG LIFE CYCLE COLORING WHEEL
Learning objectives
To identify the stages of a ladybug life cycle.
To identify the correct sequence of the life cycle of a ladybug.
To familiarize about the life cycle of an ant.
To develop coloring skill.
LADYBUG CLIP ARTS
You can use these clip arts as a classroom decor.
You can use these clip arts as a classroom decor.
LADYBUG LIFE CYCLE WORKSHEET 1
Learning objectives
To identify the stages of a ladybug life cycle.
To identify the correct sequence of the life cycle of a ladybug.
To familiarize about the life cycle of a ladybug.
To develop coloring skill.
To develop writing skill.
HOW TO USE
Print and give your students a copy. Explain to your students the directions written in the worksheets.
Monitor your students while doing the activity.
This could be a group or individual activity.
OVERVIEW
LADYBUGS
Ladybugs go by several other names: lady beetles, ladybug beetles and ladybug beetles. Regardless of what we call them, these beetles belong to the family Coccillenidae. All ladybugs progress though a four-stage life cycle known as a complete metamorphosis. Their life cycle is quite similar to that of butterflies. There are four stages. after the egg hatches, the worm-like larva appear. The larva must metamorphose into pupa and develop into an adult ladybug.
EGGS
The ladybug life cycle begins with an egg. Once she has mated, the fefmale ladybug lays a cluster of 10 to 50 eggs. Usually, she'll deposits her eggs on a plant with suitable prey for her offspring to eat when they hatch, like aphids.
Between spring and early summer, a single female ladybug may produce up to 1,000 eggs.
Scientists believe ladybugs lay both fertile and infertile eggs in the cluster. When aphids are in limited supply, the newly hatched larvae will feed on the infertile eggs.
LARVA (LARVAE)
In about four days, the ladybug larvae emerge from their eggs. Species and environmental variables (such as temperature) may shorten or lengthen this time frame. Ladybug larvae look somewhat like tiny alligators, with elongated bodies and bumpy exoskeletons. In many species, the ladybug larvae are black with brightly colored spots or bands.
In this stage, ladybugs feed voraciously. A single larva can consume dozens of aphids per day. Larvae feed on other soft-bodied plant pests as well, including scale insects, mites and insect eggs. Ladybug larvae don't discriminate when feeding, and will sometimes eat ladybug eggs, too.
The newly hatched larvae is in its first instar. It feeds until it grows too big for its cuticle, at which time it will molt. After molting, the larva is in the second instar. Ladybug larvae usually molt through four instar or larva stages, before preparing to pupate. The larva will attach itself to a leaf or other surface when it is ready to pupate.
PUPA
In its pupal stage, the ladybug is usually yellow or orange with black markings. The pupa remains still, attached to a leaf through out this stage. The ladybug's body undergoes a remarkable transformation, directed by special cells called histoblasts. The histoblasts control a biochemical process through which the larval body is broken down and reformed into the adult ladybug. Depending on the species and environmental variables such as temperature, the pupal stage may last 3 to 12 days
ADULT/LADYBUG
What does a newly emerged ladybug look (one that just hatched out from the pupa) like?
When the metamorphosis is complete, the skin of the larvae will split open and the full grown ladybug will emerge but it still wont look like the ladybug that you know so well. It will look soft and pink or very pale for the couple of hours until its shell becomes hard. As the shell hardens, it also gain pigment. Which causes the ladybug to become bright red.
Raising Ladybugs
Some people like raising ladybugs in ladybug's farm similar to an ant farm or a worm farm. They do these because they love ladybugs and so that they can watch the wonderful transformation of the ladybug life cycle. Lots of teachers have ladybug farms. If your teacher doesn't have one, you should ask him or her to get a ladybug farm for the classroom.
Facts about ladybugs
1.Ladybugs are a type of beetle.
2. Some ladybugs have no spots and others have up to 20 spots.
3. To help depend themselves, ladybugs play dead. They also can release a yellow fluid that other bugs find stinky.
4. The color of a ladybug sends off the message to its predators that it may taste bud or be poisonous.
5. When the temperature is near 60 degrees Fahrenheit or around 16 degrees Celsius the ladybug become active.
6. During winter ladybugs hibernate together to stay warm.
7. Ladybugs are both male and female.
8. A ladybug can live up to a year long.
9. There are two sets of wings,. The outer set is the hard shell for protection and the inner set are what it uses to fly.
10. Ladybugs are very helpful to a garden as they eat aphids and mites, which are bugs that are harmful to plants.
11. An adult ladybug can eat up to 50 aphids in a day.
12. Ladybugs taste and smell with their antennae
13. A ladybug lays its egg on a leaf. They are yellow eggs that turn white.
14. They come out the egg as larvae. If there is just one its a larva.
15. The larvae resemble tiny alligator.
16. The larva sheds its outer skin, which is called molting. This happens after it has eaten too much that its skin become too tight.
17. After the larva is done molting, it becomes a pupa.
18. The pupa stick itself to a safe place where it will not move. The pupa breaks open as the ladybugs come out.
19. The ladybug's body goes from being soft with no spots to the hardened and spotted ladybugs we are familiar with.
20. The inner wings used for flying must dry before the ladybug can fly.
Source: https://www.thoughtco.com/the-life-cycle-of-ladybugs-1968141
http://www.ladybug-life-cycle.com/
https://preschoolinspirations.com/ladybug-facts-for-kids/
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