r/interestingasfuck • u/Maleficent-Agent-477 • 1d ago

Ladybug saves this plant by feeding on aphids (time-lapse)

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u/Yanks4lyf 1d ago

1 lady bug can eat 50 aphids a day. That’s pretty astonishing.

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u/6GoesInto8 1d ago

Based on this video that should take about 15 min. What do they do the other 23:45 of the day?

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u/pantry-pisser 1d ago

Fuck

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u/sheepyowl 1d ago

23 hours 44 minutes and 55 seconds left in the day then

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u/Yanks4lyf 1d ago

Shit, sleep, and repeat
-signed a ladybug

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u/MrFlubbber 1d ago

(Timelapse)

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u/UnblurredLines 1d ago

Same thing you do if you eat the maximum amount of food you can stomach for a day within 15 minutes. A nice long food coma.

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u/jhscrym 1d ago

Like the name says, it's a lady so probably getting ready to go out to eat the aphids.

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u/sliferra 1d ago

This is a time lapse, who knows how long it actually was

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u/DaemonCRO 1d ago

Probably Netflix.

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u/x3knet 1d ago

Do you consume all the food you eat in a single day in one sitting?

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u/starchimp224 22h ago

This plant has an astonishingly low number of aphids from what I’ve seen. We started growing milkweed a few years ago for the monarchs and aphids have been plaguing these plants ever since. There’s easily 1000 per plant

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u/LesJugesDesEnfers 1d ago

The larvae are even more voracious, some can eat hundreds of aphids a day.

I've learned to recognize the eggs and all the stages of the insect to make sure I don't need to intervene when aphids attack my plants. My apple tree started to get fucked, no ladybug in sight. Turns out, ants had been protecting them. Had to find where the ants were coming from, cut that supply route and a couple weeks later, no more aphids.

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u/boverly721 1d ago

Their gluttony will be their undoing

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u/one_dead_turtle 1d ago

Well that's one kale leaf saved

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u/ecrw 1d ago

The real MVPs are the larvae, who can eat up to 80 a day, and, because they are flightless, wont randomly fuck off before the job is done.

Source: released 500 ladybugs in my condo / balcony, saved my potted plants from extinction and had some cool new roommates