Last week we saw ladybirds at different stages of their lifecycle in our garden.
The ladybird starts off as an egg. It hatches into a larva. The larva likes to eat little flies called aphids. When it has grown big, it turns into a pupa (a bit like a cocoon). The ladybird hatches out of the pupa and lies in the sun. It’s shell goes darker and it gets spots.

In the photos you can see a larva on Anya’s hand, two pupae attached to a leaf, and a newly hatched ladybird.