Discolored lady beetle
The discolored lady beetle is a small reddish-orange ladybird with black stripes instead of spots. It is often found in rice fields, where it helps farmers by eating pests.
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Fun facts
It is one of the most common ladybirds in rice fields, especially when the rice is flowering.
Farmers can use it to fight the brown planthopper, a small bug that harms rice.
Both the grown-ups and the young ones are very hungry hunters.
It lives in many parts of Asia, and also in the United States, Hawaii and Tonga.
Most asked questions about Discolored lady beetle
?What does the discolored lady beetle eat?
Rice pollen, and also aphids and other small pests.
?How big is the discolored lady beetle?
It is 5 to 6 millimetres long.
?Is the discolored lady beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless and helps farmers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Micraspis discolor
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1798
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Asia, North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Micraspis discolor (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 Doreen. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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