How the Lady Bug saved the Bald Eagle

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How the Lady Bug saved the Bald Eagle

• A short tale about the
• ECOLOGY OF THE LADYBUG by JP Lang

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Many years ago life on the farm was going very
good. Farmers planted their crops and harvested
them. They fed the crops to their livestock.
There was plenty of food for all.
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Then one year the farmer noticed that his crops
were not growing very well. So he called his
friend over to look at his crops.
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The farmers friend told the farmer that aphids,
a nasty insect, was eating his crops and that he
should spray his fields with DDT to kill the
aphids.
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The farmer was told that DDT was safe. He looked
in a magazine and found an advertisement that
showed how helpful and safe DDT was, but the
farmer was concerned.
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The farmer was concerned, because since he
started spraying DDT, he noticed that many birds
were disappearing. The bird that was
disappearing the most was the Bald Eagle.
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It seems that the DDT was killing the Bald
Eagles. It turns out that DDT was not as safe as
people believed. So many Bald Eagles were killed
that they almost disappeared.
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The farmer did not know what to do. If he did
not spray DDT the aphids would eat his crops and
he would go hungry. If he sprayed his crops with
DDT the Bald Eagles would vanish. The farmed
needed another method to kill the Aphids.
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Hearing of the farmers problem a teacher told
the farmer that the answer to his problem was the
Ladybug. The farmer thought the teacher was
crazy.
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The teacher explained that Ladybugs eat aphids
and do not harm the environment. That the farmer
could grow his crops and not harm the Bald Eagle
and all he had to do was release the ladybugs.
This is how the Ladybug saved the Bald eagle.