Ever had a dangerous hair day? How usually do you wash your hair? Do you’ve dandruff issues? If so, you should utilize an anti-dandruff shampoo. Does anybody know of any conventional treatment for dandruff? Try asking your dad and mom.
If you’ll be able to, would you wish to color your hair or sport an outrageous coiffure?
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Did you know a ladybird can transfer quicker than a baby? Scientists from Britain’s University of Hull have found that these bugs, also referred to as ladybugs and ladybird beetles, can fly as quick as a horse runs – as much as 59.5km an hour!
Ladybirds are helpful bugs and one of many best allies of farmers and gardeners.
Many species feed on aphids or scale bugs, that are pests in gardens, agricultural fields and orchards. In simplified phrases, ladybirds are nature’s pest controllers and are more practical than toxic pesticides.
Let’s hear what Starchild readers needed to say on the subject, Ladybugs.
Zhaara’ Shariffullah, 8
Eight-year-old Zhaara’ Shariffullah likes pink ladybirds with black dots. “The scientific name of a ladybird is coccinellidae. Their colour protects them from the predators. They live for about three years.”
Raja Hani Nadrah Raja Muhammad Zuha, 9
“I like to play with ladybirds because they are cute and beautiful. I can find them on my mom’s bittergourd plant. I do not like to touch them because they produce yellow goo. Do you know that there are 5,000 species of ladybugs in the world? They go through a metamorphosis cycle to sustain their species,” writes Raja Hani Nadrah Raja Muhammad Zuha, 9.
Chuah Seng Koon, six, thinks ladybugs are unbelievable as they’ll fake to play lifeless by defending themselves. “Some ladybugs have no spots while others have up to 20 spots. Ladybugs are trees and other plants’ best friends as they kill the aphids on their leaves. I enjoyed reading The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle. The book is about a grouchy ladybug that protects plants by eating aphids.”
“I like my backpacks with ladybugs designs. It looks nice and colourful. Ladybugs eat many aphids, scale insects and other soft-bodied insects. Ladybugs have many spots,” says Wong Jie Ern, six.
Wong Jie Ern, 6
Older sibling Wong Cheng Yang, eight, says ladybugs are cute. He needs he may go to the land of ladybugs at some point. “Ladybugs are found in temperate and tropical regions all over the world. Ladybugs can be different coloured, and they can be red or yellow. There are many spots on its shell.” Sometimes, they land on my toys, partitions and mats.”
Wong Cheng Yang, 8
Nine-year-old Jayden Tan Li Sheng says: “My sisters have a few ladybug plushies. We have created many adorable ladybugs during our arts and crafts lessons. They are used as decorative items on our photo frames and cardboard pencil holders. I love these cute bugs. It is said that good luck will come our way if we find the bugs flying toward our home.”
Anoushka Sri Viknesh, 7
“I love ladybugs because they are so cute. A ladybug’s lifespan is three years. They secrete a smelly yellow substance to ward off predators,” writes Anoushka Sri Viknesh, seven.
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