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a.k.a Ladybird beetles
Ladybugs can eat huge numbers of pesky insects (especially tiny little aphids!) . A single ladybug can eat as many as 5,000 aphids in a lifetime.
L. Patricia Kite writes in her book "Ladybug Facts and Lore" that hundreds of years ago, farmers were grateful that these tiny insects protected their grapevines, so they called it "our lady's beetle," believing it had been sent from heaven. |
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