Broken-dashed lady beetle
Myzia interrupta
The broken-dashed lady beetle is a pale yellowish brown ladybird. Instead of black spots, it has light brown stripes on its wing cases. It lives in western North America.
Lives in
Western North America, from Alberta and British Columbia to California and western Texas
Length
6.5 to 8 mm (0.26 to 0.31 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like most ladybirds, it hunts tiny soft insects such as aphids.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 11 seconds⚡moves 1200 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)
Broken-dashed lady beetle about 35 km/h (22 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wing cases usually have light brown stripes, which look like broken dashes.
2
On the shield behind its head there are three light brown spots.
3
It is about 6.5 to 8 millimetres long, about the size of a pea.
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Most asked questions about Broken-dashed lady beetle
?What does the broken-dashed lady beetle look like?
It is pale yellowish brown with light brown stripes instead of black spots.
?Is the broken-dashed lady beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless ladybird.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myzia interrupta
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Myzia interrupta (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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