Ladybird, Ladybird

Fill in the spaces with words from the article.

Ladybirds are found all over the world .

Many of them are red or orange .

Ladybirds come in other colours too, both with and without spots.

Ladybirds like to eat aphids and other garden pests.

The ladybird glues  eggs under leaves. A week later the eggs hatch into six-legged larvae. They eat about thirty aphids a day.

The larvae grow fast and need to split their skins several times. This is called moulting.

Next it turns into a pupa. After a week or two it becomes a ladybird.

Make some new words

munch     bunch     crunch     hunch     lunch   scrunch   

gobble     bobble    cobble     hobble    nobble     wobble      

ooze     booze snooze        

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Read pages 14 - 15 to find out how the ladybird got it’s name.