Ladybug Land
Posted by Jim at November 15th, 2007
A few weeks ago my wife brought our daughters shopping at Meijers. She bought shoes for our youngest daughter, but decided to buy something for our oldest daughter so she didn’t feel left out.
Abby selected “Ladybug Land.”
Ladybug Land is a small plastic terrarium where you can raise ladybugs from larva to adulthood. You order the insects separately. They are mailed to your house along with the food.
Within a few weeks they grow to adulthood. Almost all of ours have emerged from their pupae, much to the amusement of everyone.
By everyone I mean everyone. Kristen has spent at least as much time watching them as Abby.
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We enjoyed our Triops similarly.
Ed Heil
Do any of your Triops survive?
Jim
They lived several months, which as I understand it is pretty good for Triops.
Theoretically if we had allowed the water they had lived in to evaporate, it should have left behind dessicated Triops eggs, which we could have hatched into new Triops by pouring more water in, but we didn’t take it that far.
Ed Heil