Seaside lady beetle
The seaside lady beetle is a ladybird that loves the seaside. It can be light brown, yellow, orange or red, with big black spots that often join up along the sides. It lives on beaches and in salt marshes in North America.
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Fun facts
It is the only kind of beetle in its group, called Naemia.
There are two kinds of it. One lives along the east coast and in Bermuda, the other in the dry American Southwest.
You can tell the two kinds apart by the head: one has a black head, the other has a pale triangle on it.
It is easy to mix up with the spotted pink ladybeetle, which is much more common and lives away from the sea too.
Most asked questions about Seaside lady beetle
?Where does the seaside lady beetle live?
Near the sea in North America, on beaches, salt marshes and small islands in bays.
?How big is the seaside lady beetle?
About 4 to 7 millimetres long, a bit smaller than a pea.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Naemia seriata
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Naemia seriata (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 Plcoffey. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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