Harmonia quadripunctata

Four -spotted Lady Beetle ( Harmonia quadripunctata )

The four- spot ladybird or head - Four -spotted Lady Beetle ( Harmonia quadripunctata ) is a beetle of the family of Ladybug ( Coccinellidae ).

Features

The beetles are 5.5 to six millimeters long. They are yellowish or light red and each have eight black or bright dots with other black, only easily recognizable smaller dots on the wing covers ( elytra ). In addition, bright lines between the points are distributed. Your name the beetles distributed by the bright pronotum, four large black spots that sometimes grow together to form lines. Next to it is another small black dots. The puncturing of the elytra is variable, the points can merge or are completely absent. The maximum number of points is eight per Elytre.

Occurrence

The animals come in pine forests (from the lowlands to the hill country) before the southern northern Europe to southern Europe. In the British Isles the four -spot ladybird is only occasionally encountered. In Asia Minor, the species is also based.

Way of life

The four- spot ladybird hunting different types of aphids such as Pineus pini and Lachnus pinicola. The beetles are often found on artificial light sources. You sit, especially on pine trees and overwinter in companies under the bark of various deciduous and coniferous trees such as pines and poplars.