Convergent ladybird
The convergent ladybird is one of the most common ladybirds in North America. It is a hungry little hunter of aphids, the tiny bugs that suck on plants. Its babies look like small, dark alligators.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
A female can lay more than 1000 eggs in a few months. She lays them in little standing-up groups right next to the aphids.
The first babies to hatch sometimes eat the eggs that have not hatched yet, as their very first meal.
In the western United States, big crowds of them rest together in mountain valleys for up to nine months.
People buy them and let them go in gardens and greenhouses to eat aphids. But outside they often just fly away.
On hot, dry summer days they drink water from sunflower stems.
Most asked questions about Convergent ladybird
?What do convergent ladybirds eat?
Mostly aphids. A grown-up can eat about twenty aphids a day.
?Do convergent ladybirds bite?
No, they are harmless to people.
?Where do convergent ladybirds live?
All over North America, in fields, gardens, grasslands and forests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hippodamia convergens
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Convergent lady beetle
Where the facts come from
- Hippodamia convergens (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 Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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