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Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle

Propylea quatuordecimpunctata

The Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle is a small, colorful bug with 14 spots on its back! It loves to munch on tiny pests like aphids, helping plants stay healthy and happy.

Lebensraum: Urban areas

Aussehen

The Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle is small and oval-shaped, typically bright yellow or orange with exactly fourteen black spots on its wing covers. Its pronotum, the segment behind its head, often has two black spots or a distinctive M-shape marking, making it easy to identify.

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Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle
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Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Female lady beetles can lay hundreds of eggs to make many pest-eating babies!

Lady beetle larvae look like tiny alligators and hunt pests aggressively!

They squirt bitter, yellow 'blood' from their legs to scare away hungry predators!

They wiggle their antennae to sniff out tasty aphids hiding on leaves!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Toxic Blood Blast

Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle can release foul-smelling, bitter-tasting yellow hemolymph from its leg joints to deter predators.

Fähigkeit

Aphid Annihilator

Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle can rapidly consume large numbers of aphids, helping to protect plants from pests.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
7-9 mm
Größe
3.5-4.5 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-90 Tage
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

A tiny but mighty predator, eating garden pests to keep plants healthy!

Altersunterschiede: Larvae are voracious hunters, eating even more aphids than adults.

Hauptnahrung

  • aphids
  • spider mites
  • scale insects
  • insect eggs
  • small larvae

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

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Cotton Aphid

Aphis gossypii

Helps control cotton aphid populations on crops.

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Green Peach Aphid

Myzus persicae

An important predator of the common green peach aphid.

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Pea Aphid

Acyrthosiphon pisum

Reduces pea aphid numbers, protecting garden and field peas.

Merkmale

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Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

These beetles are friendly and safe to observe, but don't touch them too much.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

7-9 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

3.5-4.5 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

30-90 Tage

Was frisst Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

A tiny but mighty predator, eating garden pests to keep plants healthy!

Wo findet man Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle normalerweise?

Urban areas

Wie jagt Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

6

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Neueste Snaps

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