Sinuate lady beetle
Hippodamia sinuata
The sinuate lady beetle is a small ladybird from North America. It has pale spots on the shield behind its head. A black line runs down the middle of its back, where its two wing cases meet.
Lives in
Western North America, from Alaska down to California and New Mexico, and also in Oceania
Length
4.3 to 5.8 mm (0.17 to 0.23 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot hurt you.
What does it eat?
Like its ladybird cousins, it hunts aphids, the tiny bugs that suck juice from plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 13 seconds⚡moves 1400 times its own body length every second
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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)
Sinuate lady beetle about 29 km/h (18 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is only about 4 to 6 millimetres long, about the size of a grain of rice.
2
Each wing case has a broad stripe on it.
3
There are three kinds of it, and each lives in a different part of North America, from the cold north down to sunny California.
you asked
Most asked questions about Sinuate lady beetle
?Is the sinuate lady beetle dangerous?
No. It is a small, harmless ladybird.
?How big is the sinuate lady beetle?
About 4 to 6 millimetres long, a little smaller than a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hippodamia sinuata
- Named by
- Mulsant, 1850
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Hippodamia sinuata (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 Chloe and Trevor Van Loon. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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