While most people think of them as beautiful and adorable with their red color and black spots they are predators.

What ladybirds eat. Ladybugs eat very often. Ladybugs can eat up to 5000 aphids during its lifetime. They eat aphids not fabric or wood.

Ladybugs like to feast on teeny sap-sucking insects known as aphids. In fact some ladybugs even eat other ladybugs. So what do ladybugs eat.

Ladybugs eat all sorts of pest insects such as aphids thrips chinch bugs asparagus beetle larvae alfalfa weevils bean thrips grape root worms Colorado potato beetle larvae spider mites white flies mealy bugs and many others. Some examples of fruits that they eat are bananas dates figs grapes papaya and persimmons. Interestingly an adult ladybug can eat up to 50 aphids while their larvae can consume 300-400 aphids a day.

What do ladybugs eat. Even larval ladybugs eat aphids. A few species eat plants and some even specialise in mildew and others in fungi.

While the main food of ladybugs is aphids and soft-bodied insects they also feed on fruits and anything sweet. The steely-blue larvae with creamy-yellow spots do not resemble the adults. They can survive these harsh times by using the fat reserves they accumulated during summer.

Many species of ladybugs also feed on other softbodied insects including mealybugs scale insects and spider mites and eggs of the European corn borer and Colorado potato beetle. They also eat other insects that have soft bodies like mites white flies and. Insects like Dragonflies Assassin bugs and Parasitic Wasps Tree Frogs Ants Anole fungus.