Three-striped lady beetle
The three-striped lady beetle is a tiny ladybird, smaller than a grain of rice. Instead of spots, it has creamy yellow wing covers with black stripes. It is a great helper for farmers, because it eats lots of plant pests.
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Fun facts
It is only about 3.5 millimetres long.
Scientists have seen it eat around 30 different kinds of pests.
The female hides 2 to 20 eggs in the cracks of curled leaves.
Its baby starts out smoky grey and fuzzy, and grows longer and spikier each time it sheds its skin.
Most asked questions about Three-striped lady beetle
?What does the three-striped lady beetle eat?
Aphids, mealybugs, whiteflies and other small pests on plants.
?How big is the three-striped lady beetle?
It is only 3.5 to 3.8 mm long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brumoides suturalis
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1789
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Brumoides suturalis (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 Forest & Kim Starr (USGS). Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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