Transverse lady beetle
The transverse lady beetle is a small round beetle with orange-red wing cases and black spots. Its black head has two big pale yellow spots, like a pair of headlights. It lives in Europe and all across North America.
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Fun facts
Its orange-red wing cases carry 11 black spots.
There is another beetle in Australia and Asia with the very same English name, so scientists use the Latin name to tell them apart.
One kind of it lives as far north as Greenland, where summers are short and cool.
Most asked questions about Transverse lady beetle
?Is the transverse lady beetle dangerous?
No. It is a harmless little ladybird that does not hurt people.
?How big is a transverse lady beetle?
About 6 to 7 millimetres long, a bit smaller than a pea.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Coccinella transversoguttata
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
- Also known as
- Transverse ladybird
Where the facts come from
- Coccinella transversoguttata (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 Jesse Rorabaugh. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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