The biological cycle begins with the deposition of yellowish eggs by females (about 2,000).įrom these emerges a larva that develops in this stage for about 3 weeks after which it turns into a pupa, a stadium that lasts about a week.
An additional defense system consists in the total retraction of the legs under the body to make it more difficult for any predators to catch it. This insect uses stinking excretions produced by the legs and a very colorful livery in order to keep predators away. The common ladybug is a beetle with diurnal habits and the adult appears with the arrival of heat. It has relatively short and rather distant antennas. The garment has powerful jaws and is black. The legs are short both in larvae and in adults and can be completely retracted inside the body. The elytra are bright red, with the presence of three black points for each elitra, and one on the commissure, for a total of seven points (hence the epithet septempunctata). The copro of the Coccinella septempunctata is characterized by a strongly convex, ovoidal shape, with a vividly colored livery.
It lives both in natural and agrarian ecosystems but in the latter it is strongly influenced by agricultural techniques with use of insecticides and herbicides. The Coccinella septempunctata is an insect that lives and reproduces in every part of the world especially wherever there are aphids, which are insects that are included in their diet. The common ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata L., 1758) is an insect belonging to the Coccinellidae family.įrom a systematic point of view it belongs to the Eukaryota Domain, Kingdom Animalia, Eumetazoa Subarray, Bilateral Branch, Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Tracheata, Superclass Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Subclass Pterygota, Coop Endopterygota, Superorder Oligoneoptera, Section Coleopteroidea, Order Coleoptera, Suborder Polyphaga, Infraorder Cucujiformia, Superfamily Cucujoidea, Coccinellidae Family, Subfamily Coccinellinae, Coccinellini Tribe and therefore to the genus Coccinella and to the C.
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