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• Ladybugs are also beloved by gardeners because they eat aphids, devouring as many as 5,000 during Answer: Dell. the course of their lifetime. Ladybugs can eat up to 75 aphids in a single day. A VERY LARGE NUMBER • Ladybugs were named after the Virgin Mary • Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 and to be called "theupbeetles Our Lady," he used was asked to come with aofname for a probably insectsone, were ravagvery largebecause number:when the numeral followed by the a hundred zeros. He askedcalled his two ing crops and the peasants outyoung to the nephewsfor what name they would suggest. heavens help, ladybugs showed up to save crop. •the Nine-year-old Milton suggested a name out of the funnies. A cartoon stripincharacter • Not only are they called ladybugs our lannamed Barney was very popular. Milton chose guage, but in various other languages as well. In Barney’s last name for the number. Scandinavia, they’re called ‘cyckelpiga’ mean•ing Kasner announced the new for the big ‘Our Lady’s key-maid’ andname in France they’re number in his next book, altering the spelling. known as ‘betes de la Vierge’ meaning ‘animals •ofSixty later, Larry Page the years Virgin.’ Ladybugs are and alsoSergey called Brin lady developed a new internet search engine. beetles or, in Europe, ladybird beetles. Other search engines searched each webpage and • Inranked England, ladybugs hopstimes vines, themthe according to live howon many a specific appeared them, Page and which areterm burned at theonend of but each season. Brinwanting designed search enginebugs to search Not to their see the beneficial burn for up, specific term and then find out away: how many athe rhyme was made up to warn them "Lalinks there wereflythat ledhome back/ to thathouse page,is dybug, ladybug, away Your which resulted in a better search engine. on fire and your children are gone." • They decided they needed a name that • When underhow attack, ladybugs will the feignsearch death reflected many websites by falling over and secreting a blood-like subengine was searching. They took the name stance from Kasner’s their knees. secretion poiof Edward veryThe large number,isonly sonous and it tastes bad. they misspelled it slightly, so it ended up being spelled exactly the same way the cartoon • They smell with their feet and antennae. Their character Barney spelled his last name. What’s jaws chew side-to-side instead of up and down. it called? (Answer at bottom of page) The color of a ladybug’s spots begins to fade as COMPUTER FACTS the insect ages. Females are larger than males. •They In 1981 Bill active Gates atsaid, “640 kb of memory are most temperatures around 75 F. ought to be enough for anybody.” • When a female ladybug lays her eggs, she will • Moore’s Law states that computer performance also lay a batch of unfertilized eggs. When the doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since larvae will eat the unfertilized eggs 1971, hatch, this hasthey been true. as their first meal. • HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple were all started in garages. Answer: Google, from googol.
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