Mountain lady beetle
The mountain lady beetle is a small ladybird from North America. Its wing covers are usually red, with two oval spots on each side and one more spot just behind its head. That pattern makes it fairly easy to recognise.
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Fun facts
Its wing covers are usually red, but some are orange or even yellow.
The spots are not always the same. On some beetles they are bigger or rounder than on others.
It looks a lot like another ladybird called Coccinella difficilis, so even experts have to look closely.
Most of them live in the west, but a small group lives far away in the east, from the Great Lakes to Nova Scotia and Massachusetts.
Most asked questions about Mountain lady beetle
?How big is a mountain lady beetle?
It is about 5 to 7 millimetres long, a bit smaller than a pea.
?Is the mountain lady beetle dangerous?
No. It is a small ladybird and harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Coccinella monticola
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Tamarack ladybug
Where the facts come from
- Coccinella monticola (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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