Red marsh ladybird
Coccidula rufa
The red marsh ladybird is a small reddish ladybird that loves wet places. It lives among reeds, sedges and other water plants in marshes and bogs. It even spends the winter hidden in the reeds.
Lives in
Europe, North Africa and across Asia to Mongolia, in marshes and other damp places
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. Ladybirds do not sting.
What does it eat?
It hunts aphids on reeds and other water plants, especially the mealy plum aphid.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
Red marsh ladybird about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It spends the winter tucked inside reeds.
2
Its favourite food is the mealy plum aphid, which lives on reeds in summer.
3
It is also found in drier places like fields, meadows, sandy river banks and gardens.
4
It lives up to about 1,000 metres high.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red marsh ladybird
?What does the red marsh ladybird eat?
Aphids that live on reeds and other water plants.
?Where does the red marsh ladybird live?
In marshes and damp places in Europe, North Africa and Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Coccidula rufa
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Coccidula rufa (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 Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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