Streaked lady beetle
The streaked lady beetle is a ladybird from North America. It is not red with black spots but pale brownish yellow. It is quite a big ladybird, almost as long as a fingernail is wide.
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Fun facts
The shield behind its head is dark brown in the middle with white edges on the sides.
It has been found from the cold coast of Labrador in Canada all the way south to South Carolina.
Like other ladybirds, it hides its flying wings under two hard wing cases.
Most asked questions about Streaked lady beetle
?What colour is the streaked lady beetle?
Pale brownish yellow, with dark brown and white on the shield behind its head.
?How big is the streaked lady beetle?
About 6.5 to 8 millimetres long, which is big for a ladybird.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myzia pullata
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Myzia pullata (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jacy Lucier. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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