Why Do Ladybugs Have Spots? Do Dragonflies Bite?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

Vermont Public

Nature, Language, Kids & Family, Science

4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This week, we're getting out our bug nets and talking about dragonflies and ladybugs! Why do ladybugs have spots? How many different types of ladybugs are there? How do they crawl on the ceiling without falling down? Where do dragonflies and ladybugs sleep? Why are dragonflies called dragonflies? Do they bite? We're joined by Kent McFarland, a research biologist at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies and the co-host of another great VPR podcast called Outdoor Radio.

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0:00.0	This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio.
0:25.7	I'm Jane Lindtel.
0:27.3	On this podcast, we take questions from curious kids just like you and we find answers.
0:32.8	We love to hear about the things that you are thinking and wondering about, and that's
0:36.7	the fun of this show we all get to learn new things together.
0:40.8	This week we're getting out our bug nets to look at something considerably smaller than
0:44.9	us.
0:45.9	We're talking about dragonflies and ladybugs.
0:49.2	And we're going to be joined by someone we've talked to before on an episode we did about
0:52.9	moths.
0:53.9	I'm Kent McFarlane with the Vermont Center for Eco Studies.
0:56.5	I'm a research biologist and I like to study insects and all kinds of other flying things.
1:01.3	Why in the world do you like to study insects of all the creatures you could study?
1:05.4	Well, you know, I've studied birds and I've studied mammals but insects in my world are like
1:11.9	everything you can think of that's in the movies, insects do it.
1:14.8	They do strange things that we'd never imagine possible and it just excites me to go out
1:20.3	there and find out what they're doing.
1:22.3	What are things like what, lift something that would be like us lifting a car or leap
1:26.8	tall buildings, that kind of thing?
1:28.7	Yeah, they're like the Superman of the animal world.
1:31.9	They can do all kinds of things that we couldn't dream of.
1:34.4	Fall out of the sky for hundreds of feet, fly long distances, long distances like 3,000
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