The document describes the ladybug, including its physical appearance, diet, habitat, life cycle, and growth process. It notes that the ladybug has a rounded, red or yellow body with black spots, six legs and three pairs of wings. It eats aphids and other small insects. Ladybugs live on plants in gardens, forests and parks, and seek sheltered places to hibernate in late summer. The female ladybug lays eggs which hatch into larvae that eat many aphids as they grow until molting into a new skin. When large enough, the larvae attach to a plant and emerge a few days later as a yellow, spotless ladybug that soon develops its characteristic spots and color.
