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Streaked lady beetle

Myzia pullata

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.

Lives in
North America, from Labrador to South Carolina and west to Alberta and Colorado
Length
6.5 to 8 mm (0.26 to 0.31 in)
Top speed
about 35 km/h (22 mph)
Flying, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like most ladybirds, it hunts tiny soft insects such as aphids.
For real!Photo of Streaked lady beetle
Picture by Jacy Lucier. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Streaked lady beetle about 8 mm long (0.31 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)
small enough to sit on your fingernailcould fly across a whole football pitch in 11 secondsmoves 1200 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

The shield behind its head is dark brown in the middle with white edges on the sides.

2

It has been found from the cold coast of Labrador in Canada all the way south to South Carolina.

3

Like other ladybirds, it hides its flying wings under two hard wing cases.

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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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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