--- title: The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A summer garden is a busy little town of deals and hunts: some animals farm, some hunt, and some just --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / The garden in summer: flowers, aphids,… # The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day Lesson 334 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/0/) — A summer garden is a busy little town of deals and hunts: some animals farm, some hunt, and some just grow faster than anyone can eat them. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/1/) — Look at a rose stem covered in tiny green aphids sucking sweet sap. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/2/) — In summer each mother gives birth to live babies without needing a father, and each baby already has its own baby growing inside, so a few aphids become thousands in days. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/3/) — Then come the hunters: a seven-spot ladybird and its spiky grey larva munch through them, while ants walk up the stem to stroke the aphids and drink their sweet honeydew, guarding them from ladybirds in return. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/4/) — Over it all, on a warm July afternoon, the air fills with flying ants, and swifts scream over the rooftops catching them; these birds eat, drink and even sleep on the wing. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/5/) — Aphids suck sugary sap from plant stems, and in summer female aphids give birth to live babies without a father, so their numbers explode. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/6/) — A baby aphid is born with its own baby already growing inside it. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/7/) — Both adult ladybirds and their spiky larvae eat aphids, and one ladybird is reported to eat thousands of aphids in its life, so gardeners welcome them as free pest control. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/8/) — The seven-spot ladybird is named for its spots; the number of spots does not show its age, and its bright colours warn birds that it tastes bad. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/9/) — Aphids give out a sweet drop called honeydew, ants drink it, and in return ants guard the aphids from ladybirds, which people call «milking» the aphids. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/10/) — On warm, damp days winged young queens and males leave many ant nests at once; gulls and swifts feast on them, and these flights happen over several weeks, not just one day. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/11/) — Longer, unmown grass lets clover, daisies and other flowers bloom and feed bees and butterflies, and «No Mow May» asks people to skip mowing for a month. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/12/) — Grasshoppers chirp by rubbing their back legs against their wings, crickets rub their wings together, and the warmer it is, the faster they chirp. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/14/) — Swifts spend almost their whole lives flying, even sleeping on the wing; they come to Britain in May and leave in August, and a young swift may fly for about two years without landing. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/15/) — Birds bathe to keep their feathers clean and working well; fresh water helps them in hot, dry weather, and starlings bathe in noisy crowds. - ← previous: [The garden in spring: buds, frogspawn, queen bumblebees and nesting birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/333-the-garden-in-spring-buds-frogspawn-queen-bumblebees-and-nesting-birds/) - next →: [The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)