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What is the meaning of Fulop Gabor’s statue? I have no idea, but I’m going with a superhero one, especially since it presents a more frightening version of the current ladybug superhero.
Ladybug Bag $29.95
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I’m sure you’ve seen ladybugs before, but what do you know of its life cycle? Turns out, the lifecycle of a ladybug is far, far stranger than you’d ever think:
The ladybug larva goes through several stages and is best described as looking something like an insect equivalent of a crocodile, only black and with (occasionally) orange markers. The larvae eat about twenty five aphids (or equivalent!) a day. That’s nothing to what the adult can get through – roughly about fifty. This is why many ladybugs are popular with farmers and gardeners.
In fact their name comes from a time in the Middle Ages when people thought that they were sent as a gift from the Virgin Mary to help with controlling pests.
It is not, as many people believe, a protogynous hermaphrodite. This is when an animal begins its life as a female. So, if you thought they were so named because the vast majority (or as some believe, all of them!) were female, then put that thought out of your mind!
Link (photo: Giles San Martin [Flickr])
Photo: aileenrobot [Flickr] – via The Drill Down
Found at the Epic Mickey booth at the 2010 E3 Expo in Los Angeles. (Apparently, Epic Mickey is a new wii game from Warren Spector, the famous video game designer – I’m most familiar with his Wing Commander series, which I’m sure told you about when I quit playing video games!).
When you see it, you’ll … be mildly amused 
It is that time of year again and as the aphid population swells, so will that of the ladybug. The insect itself has a fairly strange life cycle and here it is for you in all its wonderful gory, sorry, glory.
The male has an insect penis which is called an aedeagus. A “lock and key” fit means that if he gets it wrong and tries to mate with another species of ladybug, he will not get to third base! Fertilization, as you can see, is internal, which surprises many people. It doesn’t exactly start with a kiss, but with a little Barry White in the background this could almost be classed as romantic! Almost, but not quite!
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