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Ladybug Day draws crowd at Lewes Children’s Learning Garden

July 24, 2018

The Lewes Children’s Learning Garden held its annual Ladybug Day July 20, drawing dozens of eager and curious kids hoping to see a ladybug up close. 

After painting rocks to look like ladybugs and crafting ladybug-themed crowns, the children had their chance to place live ladybugs on vegetables in the garden. Lewes in Bloom provided 3,000 ladybugs for the children to spread. Ladybugs consume plant-eating insects, making them very helpful to gardens.

The garden was filled with signs featuring facts about ladybugs. Some include:

• A ladybug is called a ladybird in Great Britain

• A ladybug tastes and smells with its antennae 

• A ladybug’s jaw chews side to side rather than up and down

• Ladybugs come out of eggs as larvae, resembling tiny black alligators 

• Ladybugs are both male and female 

• Ladybugs play dead to defend themselves 

• A ladybug can consume up to 75 aphids a day 

• There are about 5,000 different species of ladybugs. 

The Children’s Learning Garden offers programs every Monday and Friday at 10:30 a.m. Every Monday is Garden Story Hour with children’s librarian Jennifer Noonan. Friday activities vary each week. Upcoming programs include The Wonder of Seed with Abbott’s Mill Nature Center on July 27, Makin’ Music with Nancy Curry on Aug. 3 and Cooking with Dianne Stevens on Aug. 10. 

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