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A ladybug looks cute and round with its red and black spots, but a gardener is always happy to see one because of what it secretly munches on all day long.
Ladybugs love eating aphids, tiny bugs that suck juice out of garden plants and can weaken or kill them if left alone. A single ladybug can eat dozens of aphids in a day, which is why gardeners consider them such welcome visitors rather than pests.
Ladybugs don't eat big leaves off plants, they eat the pests that damage those leaves, and they aren't nectar sippers like butterflies either — their whole diet centers on soft-bodied insects like aphids.
Because ladybugs are such effective natural pest controllers, many gardeners and farmers actually buy boxes of them to release on purpose instead of using chemical sprays, letting the beetles do the pest-fighting work for free.
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