Glacial lady beetle
Hippodamia glacialis
The glacial lady beetle is a North American ladybird. Like other ladybirds, it has a round, shiny shell and short legs. It lives in many parts of North America, from Quebec to California.
Lives in
North America, from Quebec and Saskatchewan down to Alabama, New Mexico and California
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
Like many ladybirds, it hunts tiny soft insects such as aphids.
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)
Glacial lady beetle about 30 km/h (19 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists split it into three subspecies, and each one lives in a different part of North America.
2
One subspecies lives only in California.
3
Two of the subspecies were described in 1850 by the French scientist Étienne Mulsant.
you asked
Most asked questions about Glacial lady beetle
?Where does the glacial lady beetle live?
In North America, from Quebec and Saskatchewan down to Alabama, New Mexico and California.
?Is the glacial lady beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless little ladybird.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hippodamia glacialis
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Hippodamia glacialis (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 Ryan Hodnett. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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