Golf Ball Lady Bug and Bees
Golf Ball Lady Bug and Bees
Supplies: golf balls, paint, pen, and brush. (Provided in garden supply back if you picked one up.)
Optional: googly eyes
Steps:
Gather supplies. All supplies in ziplock bag labeled golf ball bugs (skip to step 3). If you did not pick up a garden bag then the supplies are listed above.
If you are starting with an unpainted golf ball then paint your golf ball red or yellow.
Take your painted red and yellow painted golf balls and choose where you want to put the face.
Draw a circle on both the red and yellow golf balls with a pen. Fill in the circle with black pen or paint.
You may want the face to dry if using paint before moving on.
Next,
For the lady bug
Draw/paint a line from the center of the circle to the back center.
Now draw the dots on either side of the line foir the lady bug spots
.For the bee
Draw/paint lines around the entire golf ball to make the stripes of the bee. Make 3 stripes.
Take thepaper and cut wings and glue on the top of the bee.
Finish up by drawing/painting eyes on the face or gluing googly eyes.
Enjoy!
Good bug because they are pollinators *Good Bug because they eat aphids and other plant-
Bees have 5 eyes eating pests.
Have 6 legs *Have 6 legs
Male bees are called drones and do not have a stinger *Diet: Omnivorne One ladybug can eat up to 5,000
Bees fly about 20 mph insects in its lifetime!
Female bees in the hive (except the queen) are called worker bees *They can have spots, stripes, or no markings at all
Number of eggs laid by queen: 2,000 per day is the high *Ladybugs are colorful. Their markings tell predators:
Bees have been here about 30 million years! "Eat something else! I taste terrible." When
Losing its stinger will cause a bee to die threatened, they will secrete an oily, foul-tasting
Bees carry pollen on their hind legs in a pollen basket fluid from joints in their legs
An average beehive can hold around 50,000 bees *Ladybugs lay their eggs in clusters or rows on the
Foragers must collect nectar from about 2 million flowers underside of a leaf, usually where aphids have
to make 1 pound of honey gathered.
The average forager makes about 1/12 th of a teaspoon of honey in *Lady bugs are most active in spring until fall
her lifetime * When cold, they look for a warm, secluded place to
Bees have 2 pairs of wings hibernate (rotting logs, under rocks)
Average per capita honey consumption in the US is 1.3 pounds *Hibernating colonies can contain thousands of ladybugs.
The principal form of communication among honey bees is *Seven-spotted ladybugs are native to Europe but through chemicals called pheromones were brought to North America in the mid-1900s to control aphid populations.
Average Life span is 122-152 days *Averager life span is 2-3 years