Large leafeating ladybird
The large leafeating ladybird is a round black ladybird with red-brown and yellow spots. Each wing case has three spots. Unlike most ladybirds, it does not hunt bugs. It eats leaves.
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Fun facts
It eats the leaves of potato, tomato and eggplant, so farmers see it as a pest.
It can also carry a plant illness from one plant to the next.
A tiny wasp lays its eggs inside this ladybird.
It lives in New South Wales, Queensland, New Guinea and islands like the Solomon Islands.
Most asked questions about Large leafeating ladybird
?What does the large leafeating ladybird eat?
It eats leaves, mostly of plants in the potato and tomato family.
?How big is the large leafeating ladybird?
It is about 7 to 9 millimetres long.
?Is the large leafeating ladybird dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people, but it can damage vegetable plants.
Myth buster
Myth: All ladybirds eat aphids.
Truth: Not all of them. This ladybird does not eat insects at all. It chews plant leaves instead.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Papuaepilachna guttatopustulata
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Large leaf-eating ladybird
Where the facts come from
- Papuaepilachna guttatopustulata (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 Mark Marathon. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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