The ladybug and the onion

I stopped at the store to buy some green onion and there was a ladybug sitting on one of the bundles. It caught me by surprise and I suddenly felt like this little kid that couldn't stop smiling. “Come here little guy”, I said as I playfully tried to get the ladybug to climb onto my finger.

I can’t help but laugh when I think about the people that were around me. I’m sure they didn’t see the ladybug and thought I was just some crazy woman in a store talking to onions.

The ladybug apparently was scared of my midget hands and took off down the never ending onion tunnel. I placed the bundle in a bag and took her home so that she could live happily ever after in a pot of flowers. When I got home I shook her out of the bag and into the flowers. I figured I could use some good luck and she could use a better home. The next day all of the flowers that were beginning to die came back to life....no joke. I guess she did bring a little luck with her!

After my flowers starting blooming like that, I wanted to know why and I wanted to see if ladybugs have little who whos....

After all, how am I supposed to know if the ladybug is really a lady?

I found out that not all ladybugs are girls and that it’s nearly impossible for the average person to tell them apart. The girls are usually larger and a male ladybug can be seen when they grab the female’s elytra (It just means hard wings but it sounds dirty) and holds on tight.

So pretty much if it wasn’t for their size or them getting their hump on, we would never know.

As for my flowers blooming like crazy, turns out that ladybugs eat aphids which are little soft bodied insects that feed on plants. Ladybugs can eat as many as 50 aphids a day. So the ladybug killed the little crappers that were killing my flowers. Now I have a friend and pretty flowers. Win Win J