American five-spotted lady beetle
The American five-spotted lady beetle is a ladybird from North America. Its colours and spots change a lot from one beetle to the next. Some of them even have no spots at all, even though they are called five-spotted.
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Fun facts
The pattern on its wing cases is extremely variable, so two of them can look quite different.
There are two kinds of it. One kind, from the west coast, is usually spotless.
It lives all the way from Prince Edward Island in the east to Alaska in the far north.
Most asked questions about American five-spotted lady beetle
?How big is the five-spotted lady beetle?
About 4 to 7 millimetres long.
?Does the five-spotted lady beetle always have five spots?
No. Its pattern changes a lot, and one kind of it usually has no spots at all.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hippodamia quinquesignata
- Named by
- Kirby, 1837
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Five-spotted lady beetle
Where the facts come from
- Hippodamia quinquesignata (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 iNaturalist user: dominic. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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