Yellow ladybird beetle
Illeis koebelei
The yellow ladybird beetle is a small, shiny ladybird that is bright yellow instead of red. Behind its head it has two black oval spots, like a pair of little eyes. It lives in parts of Asia.
Lives in
Asia: India, China, Taiwan and Japan
Length
3.5 to 5.1 mm (0.14 to 0.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
It eats powdery mildew, a white, dusty mould that grows on leaves.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 14 seconds⚡moves 1500 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)
Yellow ladybird beetle about 28 km/h (17 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is only about as long as a grain of rice.
2
Its whole back is yellow, with the two black spots on the part just behind its head.
3
Like other ladybirds, it keeps its flying wings folded under its hard, shiny wing cases.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow ladybird beetle
?How big is the yellow ladybird beetle?
About 3.5 to 5 millimetres long, about the size of a grain of rice.
?Is a yellow ladybird dangerous?
No. It is a tiny, harmless beetle that does not bite or sting.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Illeis koebelei
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Illeis koebelei (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 PD files. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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