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Children’s Learning Garden hosts Lady Bug Day
Lewes in Bloom welcomes dozens of kids
Quinn Clark, 5, of Lewes dressed the part for the annual Lady Bug Day at the Children’s Learning Garden July 21 in Lewes. PHOTOS COURTESY OF FRED PHILLIPS
August 8, 2017
Each pack contained 1,500 ladybugs.
Sebastian Samson, 15 months, of Salt Lake City, Utah, searches for ladybugs in the garden.
Brendan Pulver hands out ladybugs to Dax Lerer, 4, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Beatrice Samson, 3 1/2, of Salt Lake City, Utah.
The annual Lady Bug Day always draws a big crowd to the Children’s Learning Garden.
Lewes in Bloom Children’s Learning Garden hosted its popular Lady Bug Day July 21 in Stango Park.
One of the main purposes of a ladybug is to consume plant-eating insects, making them very helpful to gardens. They can consume up to 5,000 aphids – small sap-sucking insects - in their lifetime. Their color and spots are a defense mechanism to ward off potential predators. Not all ladybugs have the same number of spots, and it is a myth that the number of spots equals its age.
