The newly hatched baby wasp is fed on the fluid inside the ladybug, draining the life from it. On the outside, the ladybug continues to hunt aphids, while getting eaten out from the inside by a wasp. The more the ladybug feeds, the quicker and bigger the wasp gets, stealing the nutrients from the ladybug.

　　Within a week, the wasp is big enough to survive on the outside, and so by creeping through a gap in the ladybug's body, it binds itself to the bottom of the ladybug, wrapped in a cocoon(茧).

　　Although the ladybug is not having its nutrients stolen, ble.

　　A baby wasp in a cocoon is very weak to predators, so it uses the ladybug as a bodyguard.

　　When a predator approaches, the ladybug scares it off by waving its limbs. The ladybug will unwillingly serve the wasp for about a week until the now fully璯r3own wasp tears the cocoon apart and flies away. It is only then that the ladybug dies, its service complete.

　　Ladybugs

　　Introduction

　　A story (71) ________ back to the Middle Ages goes that ladybugs saved farmers' crops！

　　Cruel predators ● A single ladybug can hunt and kill up to 50 aphids as its food (72) ________

　　● It's noticeable that ladybugs' hunting by detecting plants' (73) ________ is striking.

　　Efficient defense

　　(74) ________ ● Their blessed colors are always a good (75) ________ to their predators.

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