Difference Between Scarab and Ladybug, Is Scarab and Beetle the Same East?

No, it's not too different.

1. Ladybug: It is a common name for the round protruding beetle of the Coleoptera ladybug family, which is a small insect with a bright body color, often with red, black or yellow spots. It is also known as Fat Little, Red Lady, Sister Hua, Golden Turtle, Scarab, but Scarab actually refers to another beetle, and is even commonly known as Stinky Scarab because of the smell of some species of its secretions.

There are more than 5,000 species of ladybugs worldwide, of which more than 450 species inhabit North America. The adult body of the ladybug is about 1 cm long, the body shape is semi-spherical, and the feet and antennae are short. The body color is black, red, orange, yellow, brown and other bright colors, and the patterns on the body can vary depending on the type.

2. Scarab: Scarab is an invertebrate, insecta, Coleoptera is an omnivorous pest. In addition to harming pears, peaches, plums, grapes, apples, citrus, etc., it also endangers willow, mulberry, camphor, privet and other forest trees.

Common ones are Aeruginosa beetle, North Korean black beetle, brown beetle, dark black beetle, etc. Scarab is the general term for insects of the Scarabidae family, with more than 26,000 species worldwide. It can be found on continents other than Antarctica.

Different species live in different environments, such as deserts, farmlands, forests and meadows.

The differences between Scarab and Ladybug are as follows:

1. Social behavior is different.

Scarab is recognized as a difficult to control native pest, mainly biting forest trees, fruit trees, crops, etc., and will harm pears, peaches, plums, grapes, apples, citrus and other forest trees.

Ladybug is a predatory insect and a beneficial insect, which can prey on many pests, including cotton aphid, wheat aphid, bean aphid, vegetable tube aphid, corn aphid, sorghum aphid, etc.

2. The appearance is different.

The adult body of Scarab is mostly oval or oval, the antennae are reddish-brown at the beginning of the emergence, and then gradually darken into reddish-brown or black, the whole body is covered with a thin layer of light blue-gray glittering powder, the middle of the lateral edge of the dorsal plate of the prothorax is acutely, and the anterior margin is densely covered with yellow-brown body hair. The abdomen is cylindrical, and the ventral surface is slightly shiny.

The body of the seven-star ladybug is oval, the back is smooth and arched in a hemispherical shape. After 2-3 hours, the whole body and elytra become hard, the color changes from yellow to red, and 7 black spots appear on the elytra.

3. Different living habits.

Scarabs mostly feed at depths of more than 10 cm, and generally crawl to the surface from the depths in the early morning and dusk of summer, and bite the stems, taproots, and lateral roots of bamboo willow near the ground. Adults feed on plant roots, stems and leaves, putrid organic matter, feces, etc., while larvae are in the soil and feed on organic matter in the soil.

The lower jaw whiskers of the seven-star ladybug are its main organs of touch and smell. The seven-star ladybug often crawls and searches on the host plant of the aphid, and when the lower jaw whiskers touch the aphid, it can quickly bite with the upper jaw and swallow the aphid. Ladybugs overwinter as adults, and choose drier and warmer litter under the leaves, under the soil clods near the ground at the base of weeds, in the soil crevices, and in the cracks in the bark.

1. The appearance is different: the scarab is covered with a thin layer of light blue-gray glitter powder all over the body; The body of the seven-star ladybug is oval, the back is smooth and arched in a hemispherical shape. 2. The hazards are different

Scarab Xun mainly harms apples, hawthorns, pears, plums, apricots, cherries and other fruit trees; The main crops harmed by the seven-star ladybug are cotton, wheat, cowpea, sorghum, etc. 3. Different growth habits: Scarabs usually crawl from the depths to the surface in the early morning and dusk of summer; Ladybugs often crawl on the host plants of the aphids.

Introduction of the seven-star ladybug

The ladybug feeds mainly on aphids, sometimes small soil particles, fungal spores and some small insects, and often pollen from plants in autumn. It is widely distributed in Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Ladybugs have a habit of eating eggs and preying on each other. In the case of insufficient food, the adult ladybug can easily eat the egg masses that have been laid.

Introduction of the scarab

Scarab has a wide variety of species and forms, and is one of the major groups in the order Coleoptera, with more than 20,000 species recorded in the world, and about 1,800 species have been recorded in China.

Scarab is not a seven-star ladybug, scarab is a general term for Coleoptera Scarab insects, an omnivorous pest, its adult is oval, oval, and the body surface is a metallic dark green, while the seven-star ladybug is a ladybug, the body is oval, the surface is smooth and hairy, and the elytra has 7 black spots, in addition to the seven-star ladybug is a common beneficial insect.

Scarab is not a seven-star ladybug, scarab is a general term for coleopteran scarab insects, omnivorous pests, which not only harm fruit trees, but also eat willows, mulberries and other trees, and seven-star ladybugs are ladybugs, because of their alias as beetles and are often regarded as scarabs.

The appearance and living habits of the beetle and the seven-star ladybug are different, among which the adult of the beetle is oval and oval, and the body surface is metallic and dark green, and they mostly feed in the soil depth of more than 10 cm, while the body shape of the seven-star ladybug is oval, the surface is smooth and hairy, and there are 7 black spots on the elytra.

Ladybug is a beneficial insect, when it is in its juvenile stage, it mainly feeds on pests such as aphids, so it belongs to beneficial insects, in addition to the body length of the ladybug is millimeters, the body is divided into head, chest and abdomen, of which the head is smaller, and has a pair of antennae, the varieties of scarab are rich and diverse, there are more than 30,000 species in the world, and it is widely distributed, can live in deserts, farmland, forests, grasslands and other places, in addition to the scarab has two types of nocturnal type and sunrise type, Among them, most of the nocturnal types have phototaxis.

Scarabs are not seven-star ladybugs. Scarab is an insect of the family Scarabidae and the genus Scarab, and the seven-star ladybug is an insect of the family Ladybugidae and the genus Scarab; The adult beetle is oblong in shape, covered with a thin layer of light blue-gray glittering powder, and is a big pest of crops, forest trees, and fruit trees; The elytra of the seven-star ladybug are red or orange-yellow, with a total of 7 black spots on both sides, and mainly feed on aphids, fungal spores, and some small insects.

Introduction of the scarabScarab has a wide variety of species, diverse forms, is one of the large groups in the order Coleoptera, there are more than 20,000 species recorded in the world, and about 1,800 species are recorded in China at present; Its larval grub is the main underground pest, the nucleus of the main underground pest, the harm is serious, often the seedlings of the plant bite off, resulting in yellow death.

Introduction of the seven-star ladybugLadybug is a migratory insect, the foraging behavior of adults and larvae belongs to the conversion of wide-area search and regional concentrated search behavior, widely distributed in Africa, Europe, Asia, through the four stages of development such as eggs, larvae, pupa and adults, and the seven-star ladybug often feeds on plant pollen in autumn.