5-spotted Lady Beetle

Coccinella quinquepunctata · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Coccinellidae

Also called: Five-spot Ladybird Beetle, 5-spot Ladybird, Five-spot Ladybird

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5-spotted Lady Beetle
Photo: Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA

The five-spot ladybird is one of the common English names for Coccinella quinquepunctata. In the Netherlands this beetle spends the winter in pine trees. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

It is commonly called the five-spot ladybird.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It overwinters in pine trees in the Netherlands.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Coccinella quinquepunctata was described by Linnaeus in 1758.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

5-spotted Lady Beetle photo 3
Photo: Pudding4brains, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), Public domain

Same family (Coccinellidae)

Asian Lady BeetleAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteSeven-spotted Lady BeetleSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataConvergent Lady BeetleConvergent Lady BeetleHippodamia convergensCan biteFourteen-spotted Lady BeetleFourteen-spotted Lady BeetlePropylea quatuordecimpunctataVariegated Lady BeetleVariegated Lady BeetleHippodamia variegataSpotless Lady BeetleSpotless Lady BeetleCycloneda sanguinea

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinella_quinquepunctata

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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