When the cells are ready, they start moving toward the top of your epidermis. This trip takes about 2 weeks to a month. As newer cells continue to move up, older cells near the top die and rise to the surface of your skin. What you see on your hands (and everywhere else on your body) are really dead skin cells.
Even More Fun Facts: 1  Because Ladybugs eat lots of aphids and other pest insects, many gardeners and farmers use them for pest control instead of chemicals. 2  A Ladybug can lay up to 1000 eggs in its lifetime. 3  Not all Ladybugs have spots.  Ladybugs will clean themselves after a meal.
It is possible for ladybugs to have a lull in their aphid diet, so they must use flower nectar for sustenance. Common garden plants, such as fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), which grows in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 5 through 10, provide nectar-rich flowers to keep the ladybug population fed.f you are trying to encourage ladybugs in your garden, plant many flower species to increase nectar supplies. Eggs laid in your garden provide a future ladybug population to protect your flower and vegetable gardens.