Minute two-spotted ladybird
Diomus notescens
The minute two-spotted ladybird is a really tiny ladybird from Australia. It is dark greenish black with two big reddish brown patches. Its back is covered in very short hairs.
Lives in
Eastern and southern Australia
Length
2.5 mm (0.1 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is tiny and does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like most ladybirds, it hunts tiny soft insects on plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚2.5 of them in a row are as long as one grain of rice⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 20 seconds⚡moves 2100 times its own body length every second
How big is Minute two-spotted ladybird compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Minute two-spotted ladybird about 19 km/h (12 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is only 2.5 millimetres long, about the size of a grain of rice cut in half.
2
Unlike shiny ladybirds, it is covered in very short fuzzy hairs.
3
It lives only in the east and south of Australia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Minute two-spotted ladybird
?How big is the minute two-spotted ladybird?
It is only about 2.5 millimetres long.
?Is the minute two-spotted ladybird dangerous?
No. It is a tiny, harmless ladybird.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diomus notescens
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Diomus notescens (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 S.E. Thorpe. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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