Do ladybugs eat their babies?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\nLady bugs have been known to consume aphid eggs and larvae when there is lack of other food. In a single season, a female ladybug may lay up to a thousand of her golden-colored eggs, which is quite a few, but not all of the eggs hatch into adult ladybugs. Even though they like to deposit their eggs on leaves that are covered in aphids. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ladybugs do consume water as part of their nutrition. They typically obtain the necessary quantity from the moisture that is present in the food that they consume. For this reason, they do not necessarily need to be located in close proximity to conventional sources of water. Do ladybugs eat and drink? Aphids, which are very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7811,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/7811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifefaq.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}