Pine ladybird
The pine ladybird is a small, round, shiny black ladybird. It usually has two red comma-shaped spots and two small round red spots. It loves pine trees and other trees with needles.
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Fun facts
Its spots can also be orange or yellow, and a few pine ladybirds are reddish brown all over.
Its colours can change as it gets older.
Between 1915 and 1930, people brought it to San Francisco to eat tree pests.
It was first found in Ireland in 2014.
Grown-up beetles sleep through the winter and come out again in spring.
Most asked questions about Pine ladybird
?What does the pine ladybird eat?
Aphids and scale insects, tiny bugs that suck sap from trees.
?How big is the pine ladybird?
It is only about 4 to 6 millimetres long.
?Where can you find a pine ladybird?
On pine and other needle trees from April to October.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Exochomus quadripustulatus
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Pine lady beetle
Where the facts come from
- Exochomus quadripustulatus (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 Anevrisme. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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