这只瓢虫有多少个斑点？
幼瓢虫就是园丁们最大的朋友之一，它们是凶猛的食肉动物，专门对付白粉虱和红蜘蛛螨。
ladybird larvae are among the biggest friends we gardeners have. They're ferocious predators on problem whitefly and red spider mite.
她用一群有趣的虫子来命名她的文学杂志，比如《七星瓢虫》和《蜘蛛》。
She named her literary magazines after a funny group of bugs, such as Lady bung and Spider.
这一现象表明七星瓢虫在高山地区具有夏季生存能力和垂直迁移能力。
This phenomenon indicates that Coccinella septempunctata survives the summer in the upper mountain area and can migrate vertically.
一个被踏死的瓢虫，一片从鸟巢里落下的羽毛，一根被折断的山楂枝，都会使他们伤感。
A crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn broken, aroused their pity.
瓢虫通过身体两侧的开口呼吸。
Ladybugs breathe through openings on the sides of their bodies.
瓢虫飞行时每秒钟扇动翅膀85次。
A ladybug in flight beats its wings up to 85 times per second.
多数瓢虫有椭圆形盖装的躯体和六只腿。
Most ladybugs have oval, domeshaped bodies with six short legs.
在美国有17种瓢虫。
一只瓢虫其一生可以吃掉约5000只昆虫！
而且没有农业径流和用来对付瓢虫等天敌的化学农药。
There was no agricultural run-off, and chemical pesticides were replaced with natural predators such as ladybirds.
他们认为，气候变暖和缺少阳光是造成瓢虫变红的原因。
The reason, they believe, is that a warming climate and fewer sunny days might be driving a shift in ladybug color.
但是研究人员还不知道阳光或温度到底是怎样影响瓢虫颜色的。
But the researchers still don't know how exactly sunlight or temperature influence ladybugs' color.
演讲是讲瓢虫的生活行为的，而且我从中学到了很多。
It was ladybug. My presentation had to be about ladybug behavior, and I learned a lot.
如果你在更远的内陆，你有机会找到黑色红斑的瓢虫。
If you were farther inland, you'd have had a good chance of finding a bug that was black with red spots.
瓢虫在树叶的背面成片或成排的产卵，通常也是蚜虫聚集的地方。
Ladybugs lay their eggs in clusters or rows on the underside of a leaf, usually where aphids have gathered.
我真的很想做一个很棒的演讲，所以我做了个瓢虫模型来展示给全班。
I really wanted to make a great presentation, so I made a model of a ladybug to show the class.
我认真的准备了，还做了一个漂亮的瓢虫模型，准备展示给班上同学。
I prepared it carefully and made a beautiful model of a lady bug to show the class.
七星瓢虫的幼虫身体长，呈黑色，像道钉一般还带有橙色或黄色的花纹。
Seven-spotted ladybug larvae are long, black, and spiky-looking with orange or yellow spots.
瓢虫之所以色彩丰富的原因是它们的特征将告诉捕食者“去吃别的吧！”
Ladybugs are colorful for a reason. Their markings tell predators: "Eat something else!"
然而飞蛾通过伪装自己生存，瓢虫却通过引人注目来告诉鸟类不要吃他们。
But moths survive by being camouflaged, and [ladybugs] survive by being conspicuous and telling birds not to eat them.
1964年，英国瓢虫出版社出版了一套旨在帮助儿童学习阅读的连环画。
In 1964 LADYBIRD books, a British publishing company, launched a series of small picture books to help young children learn to read.
鸟类是瓢虫的主要天敌，有时他们也是青蛙，黄蜂，蜘蛛和蜻蜓的战利品。
They may also play dead. Birds are ladybugs' main predators, but they also fall victim to frogs, wasps, spiders, and dragonflies.
七星瓢虫原产欧洲但为了控制蚜虫的数量于1900年期间被引入到北美。
Seven-spotted ladybugs are native to Europe but were brought to North America in the mid-1900s to control aphid populations.
出生的头几天瓢虫的幼虫因种类的不同而在外形和色彩上有所不同。
Larvae, which vary in shape and color based on species, emerge in a few days.
来自布料设计师VeraNeumann，画的下方有她可爱的瓢虫签名。
It’s from the textile designer Vera Neumann and has her cute ladybug signature at the bottom.
Brakefield说现在双斑瓢虫如此稀有以至于他无法继续他的研究。
Brakefield says the two-spot ladybugs are now so extraordinarily difficult to find that he can't continue the study.
举例来说，我发现当瓢虫出生时，它们从蛹里面出来时壳是橙色的，软的，湿的。
For instance, I discovered that when ladybugs are born, they come out of the pups and their shells are orange, soft, and damp.
尽管大多数瓢虫扑食昆虫，极少数种类的瓢虫因进食植物被认定为害虫。
Though most ladybugs eat insects, a few species eat plants and are considered pests.
在萨默塞特郡查得农场大约1000万只七星瓢虫出现在农田里并“安营扎寨”。
And in Chard in Somerset around 10 million ladybirds have descended on farmland and set up home.
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