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.
1 Many farmers consider ladybugs lucky because the eat some of the bad insects that spoil crops. 2  Ladybugs are considered lucky in Canada if they are found hibernating in a garage. 3  A ladybug is good luck if they land on your hand on a Sunday and you can count to 22 before she flies away.ome Interesting Ladybug Facts. 1  A ladybug will bring you good luck if one lands on you. 2  If a ladybug will take the illness away if you are ill when one lands on you. 3  Let the ladybug go and watch which way she flies and that is the way your answer lays. 4  Finding a ladybug is good luck, the redder the better.