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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.

Hábitat: Urban areas

Aspecto

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.

ReinoAnimaliaFiloArthropodaClaseInsectaOrdenColeopteraFamiliaCoccinellidaeGéneroPropylaea
Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle
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Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle

Categoría

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Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

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!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Toxic Blood Blast

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

Habilidad

Aphid Annihilator

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

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura
7-9 mm
Tamaño
3.5-4.5 mm
Esperanza de vida
30-90 días
Cantidad de patas
6

Dieta y alimentación

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

Diferencias por edad: Larvae are voracious hunters, eating even more aphids than adults.

Alimentos principales

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

Método de búsqueda

  • Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

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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.

Rasgos

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Colecciones

Seguridad

Peligro

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

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el envergadura de Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

7-9 mm

¿Cuál es el tamaño de Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

3.5-4.5 mm

¿Cuál es el esperanza de vida de Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

30-90 días

¿Qué come Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

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

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

Urban areas

¿Cómo caza Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

Foraging

¿Cuál es el cantidad de patas de Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle?

6

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