Critter of the Month Common name: Ladybug, lady beetle or ladybird beetle. Latin name : Coccinellidae spp . Description : Ladybugs are the most familiar and widely recognized predators of garde… ...

The difficulty comes in the comparison: Multicolored Asian Lady Beetles are nearly identical to native ladybugs to the naked eye. In fact, there are actually 5,000 different species of these ...

Here we show that the adhesive tarsal setae of the ladybird beetle Coccinella septempunctata feature pronounced gradients in the material composition and properties along their length.