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