Cream-spot ladybird
The cream-spot ladybird is a reddish brown ladybird covered in creamy white spots. In Europe it has fourteen spots, like a little polka dot dress. It hunts tiny bugs on hedges and trees.
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Fun facts
In North America it can look very different: black with white spots, yellow to pink with 18 blotches, or even almost all black.
Its larva is black with white markings and has little blunt spikes on its body.
In winter it hides in fallen leaves or in cracks in tree bark.
Under its body, each black segment has a thin red edge.
Most asked questions about Cream-spot ladybird
?What does the cream-spot ladybird eat?
Aphids and other small plant-sucking bugs, and some insect eggs.
?How many spots does a cream-spot ladybird have?
In Europe it has fourteen cream spots. In other places some have 18 blotches.
?How big is a cream-spot ladybird?
It is about 4 to 5,5 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calvia quatuordecimguttata
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Cream-spotted ladybird, Polkadot ladybird, Eighteen spot ladybird
Where the facts come from
- Calvia quatuordecimguttata (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 James K. Lindsey. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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