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Ladybugs & Bugscope

Ladybugs & Bugscope. Katie Muller Educ 140. The Twelve-Spotted Ladybug. Found in North America and parts of South America Habitat: fields, forests, gardens, and anywhere there is ample vegetation that is infested with other insects included in the beetle’s diet. The Twelve-Spotted Ladybug .

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Ladybugs & Bugscope

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  1. Ladybugs & Bugscope Katie Muller Educ 140

  2. The Twelve-Spotted Ladybug • Found in North America and parts of South America • Habitat: fields, forests, gardens, and anywhere there is ample vegetation that is infested with other insects included in the beetle’s diet

  3. The Twelve-Spotted Ladybug • Lifespan: approximately 5 months • Diet: • Predators • Feed solely on other insects and small arthropods, their eggs, and larvae. • Aphids, scale insects, and plant mites are their typical prey.

  4. The Twelve-Spotted Ladybug • Reproduction: • Sexual • Internal fertilization • Females lay 200-500 orange colored eggs one on top of the other in clusters on aphid-covered leaves. • From these eggs, larvae develop into long, oval shaped, blackish organisms that look somewhat like tiny fat alligators. • The larvae feed on the aphids and molt several times before metamorphosing into the round adult lady beetle.

  5. My Drawings My two drawings were similar, but not completely the same. The second picture has more detail, mostly because I was looking at pictures of real ladybugs when I drew it. The legs, body structure, and body shape are the most drastically different features. Also, the spots on its back are different because I learned that 7-spotted ladybugs usually have a 1-4-2 pattern.

  6. Pictures of Ladybugs These pictures, though both of real ladybugs, also vary. The top photograph is from Bugscope and was taken using ESEM. The bottom photograph was found online. The one on the top clearly has much more detail than any of the other ladybug pictures. The one on the bottom also has significantly more detail than either of my drawings.

  7. NSES • Science as Inquiry: Content Standard A • K-4 • ASK A QUESTION ABOUT OBJECTS, ORGANISMS, AND EVENTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT. This aspect of the standard emphasizes students asking questions that they can answer with scientific knowledge, combined with their own observations. Students should answer their questions by seeking information from reliable sources of scientific information and from their own observations and investigations. • This standard applies to Bugscope because the program allows students to explore bugs up close, and they have the opportunity to ask questions to experts. The students can be creative with their questions and discuss other resources where they could find answers.

  8. Literature • The Very Hungry Caterpillar. By Eric Carle. Illustrated by the author. Philomel Books: New York, 1987. • What's That Bug? Everyday Insects and Their Really Cool Cousins. By Nan Froman. Illustrated by Julian Mulock. Madison Press Book produced for Little, Brown and Company: New York, 2001. • The Magic School Bus Spins a Web About Spiders. By Tracy West. Illustrated by Jim Durk. Book adaptation of an episode of the animated TV series The Magic School Bus, based on the series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan. Scholastic, Inc.: New York, 1997.

  9. Applications for Bugscope • Reading: Read both a fiction and a non-fiction book about insects. Engage the students in a discussion about the different ways the bugs are portrayed in the two different types of text. Conclude the unit with the Bugscope experience. Have the students then compare the books with the real bugs that they saw. • Art: Have the students each pick a particular close-up part of a bug. Use images from Bugscope for the students to have a reference picture. Have them then draw the different parts of the bugs. The class’ artwork can then be displayed on an interactive bulletin board that challenges passersby to figure out what part of the bug each student drew. The original pictures can be placed next to the drawn pictures to show what they were drawing from.

  10. Resources • Little, S. 2001. “Hippodamia convergens” (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed October 9, 2006 at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Hippodamia_convergens.html • “The Twelve-Spotted Pink Ladybug” (On-line), GrowQuest. Accessed October 9, 2006 at http://www.growquest.com/12_spotted_ladybug.htm

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