Transverse ladybird
The transverse ladybird is a bright red or orange ladybird with bold black markings. It has a black stripe down the middle of its back and a wavy black shape on each side. It is a little hunter that farmers are happy to have around.
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Fun facts
It hunts more than 25 different kinds of aphids.
It looks almost the same everywhere it lives, from India to Australia.
It helps farmers most early in the growing season, when it eats the pests on young crops.
It has kept the same scientific name since it was first described in 1781.
Most asked questions about Transverse ladybird
?What does the transverse ladybird eat?
Aphids, leafhoppers, scale insects and other small pests on plants.
?How big is a transverse ladybird?
It is about 4 to 7 millimetres long.
?Is the transverse ladybird harmful?
No, it is harmless and helps farmers by eating pests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Coccinella transversalis
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1781
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Transverse lady beetle, Small transverse ladybird
Where the facts come from
- Coccinella transversalis (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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