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Red-spotted black lady beetle
○ Scientific name: Chilocorus kuwanae Silvestri
○ English name: red-spotted black lady beetle
○ Size: the length of its body is 3.6~4.3 mm
○ Distribution: Korea, Japan, China, India, North America and more
 

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The body length of red-spotted black lady beetle is around 3.6~4.3 mm. Most of its body is a circle and its back surface is convex. The color of its head is black and the shield of its brow is red-brown. The insect's pronotum, scutellum, and wing pad are black. There is a small red spot in front of the center of its wing pad. Most of the spot is long egg-shaped but sometimes, you can see a horizontal spot. The width of the spot is 1/7~3/7 compared to the width of its wing pad.  Each joint of its abdomen is red-brown and the center of 1st joint and its legs are black.
 

ⓒ 2017 JADAM All Right Reserved red-spotted black lady beetle nymph eats an Asiacorncoccus kaki

Red-spotted black lady beetle spawns from the early May and it appears 3 times a year. It lives on the bush and chaplain without distinction of a broadleaf tree or needle-leaf tree. The density of its population per year is high. You can see the red-spotted black lady beetle nymph is eating asiacorncoccus kaki from the above picture.

Coccid control with red-spotted black lady beetle is very effective. The lady beetle eats various kind of coccid and lives in the forest, orchard, and artificiality garden.   

Translated by Sunyoung Cho

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