Metallic blue lady beetle
The metallic blue lady beetle is a ladybird that is not red at all. Its wing cases are shiny dark blue, almost purple, like a little metal button. The shield behind its head has bright orange sides.
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Fun facts
You can tell boys from girls by their heads: males have a partly orange-yellow head, females a dark one.
It is about 5 millimetres long, about as big as a grain of rice.
It eats lots of different pests, from whiteflies to tiny insects called thrips.
It came from South America and now also lives in parts of Asia and in Hawaii.
Most asked questions about Metallic blue lady beetle
?Are all ladybirds red?
No. The metallic blue lady beetle is shiny dark blue, almost purple.
?What does the metallic blue lady beetle eat?
Tiny plant pests such as whiteflies, mealybugs, aphids and thrips.
Myth buster
Myth: All ladybirds are red with black spots.
Truth: No. The metallic blue lady beetle is shiny dark blue, almost purple, with no spots at all.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Curinus coeruleus
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- South America, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Curinus coeruleus (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 Forest & Kim Starr. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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