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Ladybirds (Commonwealth English), also known as ladybugs (North American English) or lady beetles (most scientists prefer this name), are a family (Coccinellidae – "little sphere") of beetles. The name is thought to allude to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Catholic faith. Ladybirds are found worldwide, with over 4,500 species described, more than 450 native to North America alone. Ladybirds are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are usually yellow, orange, or red with small black spots on their carapace, with black legs, head and feelers. As the family name suggests, they are usually quite round in shape. Because they are useful, colourful, and harmless to humans, ladybirds are typically considered cute even by people who hate most insects. Some people consider them to be a sign of good luck. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 60 KB)A ladybug sitting on a leaf. ...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anemones) Placozoa (trichoplax) Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral symmetry) Acoelomorpha (basal) Orthonectida (parasitic to flatworms, echinoderms, etc. ...
Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - spiders, scorpions, etc. ...
Classes & Orders Subclass:Apterygota Orders Archaeognatha (Bristletails) Thysanura (Silverfish) Monura - extinct Subclass:Pterygota Infraclass: Paleoptera (paraphyletic) Orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Diaphanopterodea - extinct Protodonata - extinct Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass: Neoptera Superorder: Exopterygota Orders Caloneroptera - extinct Titanoptera - extinct Protorthoptera - extinct Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera...
Suborders Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Beetles are one of the main groups of insects. ...
Infraorders Bostrichiformia Cucujiformia Elateriformia Scarabaeiformia Staphyliniformia The Polyphagans are the biggest and most diverse suborder of beetles. ...
Polyphaga Infraorder Categories: Stub | Beetles ...
Families 21 families including: Coccinellidae Cucujidae Silvanidae Nitidulidae Sphindidae Brachypteridae Smicripidae Monotomidae Passandridae Laemophloeidae Phalacridae Cryptophagidae Languriidae Eroylidae Byturidae Biphyllidae Bothrideridae Cerylonidae Endomychidae Corylophidae Latridiidae Categories: Stub | Beetles ...
Pierre André Latreille. ...
The coccinellids (Ladybirds or lady beetles) are grouped into several subfamilies and tribes organizing about 360 genera: Subfamily Coccidulinae Tribe Lithophilini Lithophilus Tribe Monocorynini Mimolithophilus Monocoryna Tribe Coccidulini Ladybug closeup from Minnesota Adoxellus Auladoria Botynella Bucolinus Bucolus Bura Coccidula Cranoryssus Empia Epipleuria Eupalea Erithionyx Eupaleoides Geodimmockius Hazisia Hypoceras Microrhizobius Mimoscymnus...
LadyBird larva (stage 3 or 4). ...
LadyBird larva (stage 3 or 4). ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1191x1076, 912 KB) Summary Picture taken by Marc Van Hoorn. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1191x1076, 912 KB) Summary Picture taken by Marc Van Hoorn. ...
Ladybirds Mating Taken by fir0002 File links The following pages link to this file: Ladybird Categories: GFDL images ...
Ladybirds Mating Taken by fir0002 File links The following pages link to this file: Ladybird Categories: GFDL images ...
Commonwealth English is intended as a collective term for the perceived standard English language used in the Commonwealth of Nations1, applying in theory to Australian English, British English, Caribbean English, Canadian English, Hiberno-English (Irish English)2, Hong Kong English3, Indian English (includes Pakistani English), formal Malaysian English, New Zealand...
North American English is a collective term to describe the varieties of the English language that are spoken in the United States and Canada. ...
Suborders Adephaga Archostemata Myxophaga Polyphaga See subgroups of the order Coleoptera Beetles are one of the main groups of insects. ...
MARY IS ONLY A VIRGIN IF YOU DONT COUNT ANAL!!!!11 LOLKTHNX. ...
In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ...
World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
Classes & Orders Subclass:Apterygota Orders Archaeognatha (Bristletails) Thysanura (Silverfish) Monura - extinct Subclass:Pterygota Infraclass: Paleoptera (paraphyletic) Orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Diaphanopterodea - extinct Protodonata - extinct Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass: Neoptera Superorder: Exopterygota Orders Caloneroptera - extinct Titanoptera - extinct Protorthoptera - extinct Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera...
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10-3 m and 10-2 m (1 mm and 1 cm). ...
The term carapace refers to a dorsal section of an exoskeleton or shell, in a number of animal groups. ...
Biology Ladybirds are brightly coloured to ward away potential predators. This defence works because most predators associate bright colours (especially orange and black or yellow and black) with poison and other unpleasant properties. This phenomenon is called aposematism. In fact, most ladybirds are indeed toxic to smaller predators, such as lizards and small birds; however, a human would have to eat several hundred ladybirds before feeling any effects. Adult ladybirds are able to reflex-bleed from their leg joints, releasing their oily yellow toxin with a strong repellent smell. This becomes quite obvious when one handles a ladybird roughly. The bright colours of this Yellow-winged Darter dragonfly serve as a warning to predators of its noxious taste. ...
The ladybird beetle copulates for up to nine hours at a time, and males may have three 90-minute orgasms in one session. Ladybirds lay eggs which hatch into a larval state. The larvae then go into a pupal stage before becoming an adult ladybird.
Ladybirds lay extra infertile eggs with the fertile eggs. These appear to provide a backup food source for the larvae when they hatch. The ratio of infertile to fertile eggs increases as with scarcity of food at the time of egg laying. (Perry & Roitberg, 2005)
Commercial usage Ladybirds are beneficial to organic gardeners because most species are insectivores, consuming aphids, fruit flies, thrips, and other tiny plant-sucking insects that damage crops. In fact, their name is derived from "Beetle of Our Lady", recognising their role in saving crops from destruction. Today, they are commercially available from a variety of suppliers. Poppies growing amongst organically grown broad beans Organic gardening is a form of gardening that uses substantial diversity in pest control to reduce the use of pesticides and tries to provide as much fertility with local sources of nutrients rather than purchased fertilizers. ...
Any organism with a diet that consists chiefly of insects and similar small creatures is an insectivore. ...
Families There are 10 families: Adelgidae - adelgids, conifer aphids Anoeciidae Aphididae Drepanosiphidae Homomasagymibutae Greenideidae Hormaphididae Lachnidae Mindaridae Pemphigidae Phloeomyzidae Phylloxeridae Thelaxidae Aphids, also known as greenfly/blackfly or plantlice, are minute plant-feeding insects in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the homopterous division of the order Hemiptera. ...
Genera 500 genera & about 5,000 species Tephritidae is a family of insects that includes fruit flies. ...
Families Suborder Terebrantia Merothripidae Uzelothripidae Aeolothripidae Adeheterothripidae Heterothripidae Thripidae Fauriellidae Suborder Tubulifera Phlaeothripidae Thrips (Thysanoptera) are tiny, slender insects with fringed wings (thus the scientific name, from the Greek thysanos (fringe) + pteron (wing)). Other common names include Thunderflies or Thunder bugs. ...
Classes & Orders Subclass:Apterygota Orders Archaeognatha (Bristletails) Thysanura (Silverfish) Monura - extinct Subclass:Pterygota Infraclass: Paleoptera (paraphyletic) Orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Diaphanopterodea - extinct Protodonata - extinct Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass: Neoptera Superorder: Exopterygota Orders Caloneroptera - extinct Titanoptera - extinct Protorthoptera - extinct Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera...
In agriculture, ladybirds, like other beetles, can find protection in beetle banks. In agriculture, a beetle bank is a strip of grass or perennials in a field that provide habitat which fosters and provides cover for insects hostile to pests. ...
Culture Ladybirds are and have for very many years been favourite insects of children. The insects had many regional names (now mostly disused) such as the lady-cow, May-bug, golden-knop, golden-bugs (Suffolk); and variations on Bishop-Barnaby (Barney, Burney) Barnabee, Burnabee, and the Bishop-that-burneth. Suffolk (pronounced SUF-fk) is a large traditional and administrative county in the East Anglia region of eastern England. ...
The ladybird is immortalised in the children's nursery rhyme extant: A nursery rhyme is a traditional song or poem taught to young children, originally in the nursery. ...
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- Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home
- Your house is on fire and your children are gone
- All except one, and that's Little Anne
- For she has crept under the warming pan.
and ancient (recounted in an 1851 publication): 1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
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- Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, ride away heame,
- Thy house is burnt, and thy bairns are tean,
- And if thou means to save thy bairns
- Take thy wings and flee away!
The name which the insect bears in the various languages of Europe is clearly mythic. In this, as in other cases, the Virgin Mary has supplanted Freya, the fertility goddess of Norse mythology; so that Freyjuhaena and Frouehenge have been changed into Marienvoglein, which corresponds with Our Lady's Bird. There can, therefore, be little doubt that the esteem with which the lady-bird, or Our Lady's cow, is still regarded and is a relic of ancient beliefs. In parts of Northern Europe, tradition says you get a wish granted if a ladybird lands on you. In Italy, it is said by some that if a Ladybird flies into your bedroom, it is considered good luck. In central Europe, a ladybird crawling across a girl's hand is thought to mean she'll get married within the year. In Russia a ladybird is called Божья-Коровка (God's cow) and a popular children's rhyme exists with a call to fly to the sky and bring back bread. World map showing Europe Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiogeographic one. ...
In the academic fields of mythology, mythography, and folkloristics a myth is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form. ...
Freya, in an illustration to Wagners operas by Arthur Rackham. ...
Fertility is the ability of people or animals to produce healthy offspring in abundance. ...
Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases...
Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ...
The ladybird is the symbol of the Dutch Foundation Against Senseless Violence, as you can see in the logo here. Other companies using ladybirds as their corporate logo include: Ladybird Books (owned by Pearson PLC and the Ladybird range of children's clothing sold by Woolworth's in the UK. Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company that produces childrens books. ...
Pearson plc LSE: PSON;NYSE: PSO is a London-based media conglomerate. ...
Woolworths Group plc is a general merchandise business in the United Kingdom. ...
Notable species Note that not all individuals show the number of spots suggested by their names: For a complete list of genera, see list of Coccinellidae genera. The Asian multicolored lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), is easy to identify from its false eyes—twin white football-shaped markings behind the head. ...
The Asian multicolored lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), is easy to identify from its false eyes—twin white football-shaped markings behind the head. ...
Binomial name Harmonia axyridis Pallas, 1773 The Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), often known as the Asian multicolored lady beetle because of the species tendency to vary in color from orange to yellow to even black, is now a common insect in North America. ...
Binomial name Adalia bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) The two-spotted lady beetle (Adalia bipunctata) is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae and is very common in western Europe. ...
Binomial name Hippodamia convergens Guérin-Méneville, 1842 The convergent lady beetle, Hippodamia convergens, is one of the most common lady beetles in North America and is found throughout the continent. ...
Binomial name Hippodamia tredecimpunctata Linnaeus, 1758 The thirteen-spotted lady beetle, Hippodamia tredecimpunctata is a type of lady beetle. ...
Binomial name Harmonia axyridis Pallas, 1773 The Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), often known as the Asian multicolored lady beetle because of the species tendency to vary in color from orange to yellow to even black, is now a common insect in North America. ...
The coccinellids (Ladybirds or lady beetles) are grouped into several subfamilies and tribes organizing about 360 genera: Subfamily Coccidulinae Tribe Lithophilini Lithophilus Tribe Monocorynini Mimolithophilus Monocoryna Tribe Coccidulini Ladybug closeup from Minnesota Adoxellus Auladoria Botynella Bucolinus Bucolus Bura Coccidula Cranoryssus Empia Epipleuria Eupalea Erithionyx Eupaleoides Geodimmockius Hazisia Hypoceras Microrhizobius Mimoscymnus...
Additional Photographs Pupal stage of a lady beetle Download high resolution version (786x651, 535 KB)LadyBird File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
| Lady beetles mating (Fizado Springs, CO) Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (900x1200, 639 KB) Summary >Colorado_ladybugs. ...
| Unusual pattern on a lady beetle Ladybird with an unusual pattern Taken by fir0002 File links The following pages link to this file: Ladybird Categories: GFDL images ...
| P-14 lady beetle consuming an aphid Download high resolution version (1445x1185, 255 KB)A P-14 lady beetle devours a pea aphid. ...
Families There are 10 families: Adelgidae - adelgids, conifer aphids Anoeciidae Aphididae Drepanosiphidae Homomasagymibutae Greenideidae Hormaphididae Lachnidae Mindaridae Pemphigidae Phloeomyzidae Phylloxeridae Thelaxidae Aphids, also known as greenfly/blackfly or plantlice, are minute plant-feeding insects in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the homopterous division of the order Hemiptera. ...
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References - I. Hodek & A. Honek, Ecology of Coccinellidae (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996)
- Perry, J.C., and B.D. Roitberg. In press. "Ladybird mothers mitigate offspring starvation risk by laying trophic eggs". Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
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