Although ladybugs and butterflies are both insects, and often are found in flowers, they differ in many aspects. Ladybug, ladybird or lady beetle is the common name of the small beetles from the family Coccinellidae, while a butterfly is an individual part of the order Lepidoptera. In addition to biological classification, ladybugs and butterflies differ in appearance, number of species, feeding habits and lifespan.
Ladybugs often are smaller than 0.4 inch. Common colors include yellow, orange and red, with black spots, but some species are pure black or brown. Although butterflies do not have hard wing covers like ladybugs, they feature a wider range of colors, sometimes featuring metallic gloss. Butterflies show greater size variations, from the small blue (Cupido minimus), which can have a wingspan smaller than 1 inch, to the giant Goliath birdwing (Ornithoptera goliath) of New Guinea, with an 11-inch wingspan.
Ladybugs species number more than 4,000, but only about 450 are found in North America, including the nine-spotted ladybug (Coccinella novemnotata). The number of butterfly species is much larger, at about 17,500 organized in six families. There are 725 butterfly species in North America, including the common copper (Lycaena phlaeas), California tortoiseshell (Nymphalis californica) and metalmark butterfly (Apodemia mormo langei).
Most ladybugs are predators, feeding on soft-bodied insects, such as mealybugs, spider mites and aphids, which also are agricultural plagues. Some species of ladybugs also eat pollen, as well as plant and pollen mildew. Butterflies, on the other hand, feed mostly on nectar and pollen from flowers. A few species can eat decaying materials and tree sap.
After passing through the egg, caterpillar and pupa stages during the metamorphosis process, an adult butterfly lives about one month. Smaller butterflies often live less, while the monarchs and mourning cloaks can have a lifespan of nine months. Ladybugs also go through metamorphosis before becoming adults. After the pupal stage, an adult ladybug can live up to one year.
One of the differences is that the populations between the two are very different. The population of ladybugs is around 4,000. The population for butterflies is around 17,500. A large difference. Also, The wings on a ladybug are hard, and on a butterfly they are soft. These differences are very easy, you just have to think a little bit.... I had to.
they both have hard skin covering and jointed body segments. the difference is that ants have no wings and butterflies don't
Butterflys go through a changing process from a catapillar to a beautiful butterfly.
there are many types of insects including ladybugs butterflys grasshopers lacewings ants bees and more ( spiders are NOT insects)
spiders and butterflys both love the great outdoors!
The differences between a red and brown ladybug is the coloring. Although, the ladybugs are different species there isn't a big difference in the bug itself.
No. lnsects have 4 wings, although sometimes only two of them function fully as wings.
A ladybug is a type of beetle
Both tarantulas an ladybugs are carnivorous arthropods.
No, they are different insects. Ladybugs (ladybirds) are types of beetle,
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separating the nutrition and habitat of the young (catapillers) and the adults(butterflys) helps reduce competition between them
well i am guessing red ones are male ladybirds because red is kind of a boy colour and i think the orange ones are female because orange is like a girl colour or it could be the other way round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!