12-spot ladybird
The 12-spot ladybird is a small light brown ladybird with twelve creamy white spots, six on each wing case. Only its eyes are black. Instead of hunting aphids, it munches a fluffy white mould that grows on leaves.
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Fun facts
It is only about 4 millimetres long, smaller than a pea.
You can find grown-ups from April to September.
When courting, the male climbs onto the female's back and turns around twice.
Its eggs have a green shine and a pointy tip.
It looks similar to some other spotted ladybirds, such as the orange ladybird.
Most asked questions about 12-spot ladybird
?What does the 12-spot ladybird eat?
Powdery mildew, a white mould on the leaves of trees like oak, hazel and alder.
?How many spots does the 12-spot ladybird have?
Twelve whitish spots, six on each wing case.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Vibidia duodecimguttata
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Twelve-spotted ladybird beetle
Where the facts come from
- Vibidia duodecimguttata (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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