Talk about an easy starting point. You buy the habitat and order the larva. Then when the larva come, you drop them in the habitat along with the food. You put water in every other day, and that's it! It's been so fun watching them grow and change. And the process goes so quickly. They started becoming pupas on Tuesday or Wednesday, and today the first adult ladybugs emerged. Wow!
At first I was scared we'd kill them all, and we wouldn't get to see any of them grow up. But instead we find more bugs every day. When they came we counted 8 larva. Then when they formed pupas we found there were 9. But today after five have become adults, there's still 9 pupas. Eric joked perhaps we have a ladybug farm going on. Actually, I think some of the larva were little and didn't move much, and we assumed they were dead when they were good and alive all along.
Anyway, Lily was all excited to feed the adults raisins today, and now she's looking forward to letting them all go in the garden.
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