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Coleomegilla maculata
Orange with black spots . what they eat? They are omnivores and feed on aphids, worms and other pests. Some of them also eat glades of grass and leaves, wild mushrooms and other types of fungus.
Just about anywhere!! They live in variety of habitas like forests, fields, grasslands, and gardens.....
There are four stages of metamorphosis that a ladybug undergoes - egg, larva, pupa and fully grown adult. A mature female ladybug can lay upto 1000 eggs.
Spotted on May 8, 2011
Submitted on Sep 8, 2011
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Coleomegilla maculata, commonly known as the spotted lady beetle, pink spotted lady beetle or twelve-spotted lady beetle.
IDs are many different for this specie..
http://www.cirrusimage.com/beetles_ladyb...
I think AnaCristinaLu has the ID correct.
YEs it is a ladybug or lady beetle is the same .
Thanks GJohnSaks :)
It's Amazing, AnaCristinaLu
somehow... I donno - is this really a ladybug?