Cotton farmers love ladybirds

What is cotton?

What is a cotton field?

Cotton field

What insects might be found here?

Ladybird anatomy

Ladybird Lifecycle

larva

pupaadult

eggs

How do ladybirds change?

Don’t you agree?

Ladybirds change a lot

Why would this be a good habitat for

bugs?

And this?

Insects love the leafy green cotton plants for a meal and somewhere shady and moist to shelter from the heat

That’s why there are more than 1000

different types of insects living in a crop

But some of those insects are baddies who…

Clemson University - USDA Cooperative Extension Slide Series, , United States

• Spread disease

• Destroy flower buds and cotton bolls

• Stop the plant making cotton

How has this caterpillar damaged this cotton boll?

Phot

o by

Jim

my

Smith

Ladybirds eat some of the main pests of cotton.

like mealybugs

two-spotted mites

phot

o by

C. M

ares

CSI

RO

and aphids

and more aphids

yumm

Wanted! Ladybirds

CreditsThis presentation has been produced by Cotton Australia to support the unit ‘Cotton Farmers love ladybirds’

Teachers are free to adapt this PowerPoint for individual, not-for-profit classroom use .

Thank you to Trudy Staines (Cotton Research and Development Corporation) and Sandra Williams (CSIRO) for their valuable input.

Image CreditsSlide 2, 3,4, 5, 10, 12, 22: Cotton AustraliaSlide 7: Eggs - San Martin GillesSlide 14: Clemson UniversitySlide 15: Jimmy SmithSlide 17: Guido BohneSlide 18: C. Mares, CSIRO