Maculate Ladybird

Harmonia octomaculata · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Coccinellidae

Also called: Lady beetle, Maculate Lady Beetle, Maculate Ladybird Beetle

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The Maculate Ladybird is a small ladybird about 8 mm long. It is a predator of many whiteflies, aphids, cotton pests and the fall armyworm moth.

How to recognize it

Its wing covers are yellow-orange with two to four black spots. The pronotum is yellow-orange with an M-shaped black marking.

It measures about 8 mm in length.

It also preys on the cotton pest Phenacoccus solenopsis and the moth Spodoptera frugiperda.

Males develop in about 42 to 49 days and females in about 49 to 57 days. The fourth-instar larva stops feeding, becomes sluggish and its body swells.

How big is the Maculate Ladybird?

It is about 8 mm long.

What does the Maculate Ladybird look like?

Its wing covers are yellow-orange with a few black spots, and the pronotum has an M-shaped black mark.

What does the Maculate Ladybird eat?

It preys on various whiteflies, aphids, the cotton pest Phenacoccus solenopsis and the moth Spodoptera frugiperda.

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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.