Maculate ladybird
The maculate ladybird is a yellowish orange ladybird with black spots. It lives in South Asia, Micronesia and Australia. It is a hungry little hunter of aphids and other tiny plant pests.
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Fun facts
When it first comes out of its pupa, it is soft, yellowish and has no spots at all. The black spots appear later.
Its eggs are yellow, but turn black just before the babies hatch.
The larva is dark and covered in little spines, and it changes its skin three times as it grows.
From egg to grown-up beetle takes only a few weeks.
It is a rare ladybird, but it helps farmers by eating a mealybug that is a big pest on cotton.
Most asked questions about Maculate ladybird
?What does the maculate ladybird eat?
Aphids, whiteflies, mealybugs and small caterpillars.
?How big is the maculate ladybird?
About 5 to 8 millimetres long. The females are a little bigger than the males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Harmonia octomaculata
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Harmonia octomaculata (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 division, CSIRO. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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