Hudsonian ladybird
The Hudsonian ladybird is a small yellow ladybird from North America. It has black spots on the shield behind its head that make the letter M. It lives in pine and fir trees and in willows.
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Fun facts
It is only 3.5 to 5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
It has two black lines on its yellow head.
Each wing case has a brown stripe and two black spots.
Because it eats a pest of fir trees, it is a little helper for the forest.
Most asked questions about Hudsonian ladybird
?What does the Hudsonian ladybird eat?
It eats the balsam woolly adelgid, a tiny sap-sucking bug that lives on fir trees.
?How big is the Hudsonian ladybird?
About 3.5 to 5 millimetres long, smaller than your little fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mulsantina hudsonica
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Hudsonian lady beetle
Where the facts come from
- Mulsantina hudsonica (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 Meghan Cassidy. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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