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| lady bug, black spot 40X |
Remember those colorful beetles possessing an ironic name? Well, turns out they have hidden features I didn't bother to notice before.
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| lady bug, black spot 40X |
Seen on the top and bottom pictures are the ladybug's elytras. As we all know, ladybugs display a unique pattern of colors such as red, orange, and black in order to create spots across their outer layer. Turns out the elytras require pores which help defend the organism from the outer environment.
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| lady bug 100X |
What I find fascinating is that the ladybug contains not only multitudes of openings across its outer shell, but also has different holes smaller than the pores. An assumption is that they are used to exchange gases for respiration.
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