Adalia bipunctata
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Adalia bipunctata, the two-spot ladybird, two-spotted ladybug or two-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae that is found throughout the holarctic region. It is very common in western and central Europe. It is also native to North America, but its population has declined sharply in many states and provinces. It is commonly introduced and imported as a biological control agent.
The two-spotted ladybird was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae; its original name was Coccinella bipunctata. Its specific name comes from the Latin bi- ("two") and punctata ("spotted").
Adalia bipunctata var. turanica Luis, 1947 Adalia bipunctata is a small coccinellid that can feature any one of a large selection of red and black forms. Some forms are similar to Mulsantina picta, but the two white spots... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sierra Nevada National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Great Bear Rainforest | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 3 | Snowdonia National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 5 | Banff National Park | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 6 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ankara | 🇹🇷 Turkey | |
| 2 | Bishkek | 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan | |
| 3 | Manchester | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | London | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 5 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 6 | La Paz | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 7 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 8 | Yerevan | 🇦🇲 Armenia | |
| 9 | Berlin | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 10 | Helsinki | 🇫🇮 Finland |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Two-Spotted Lady Beetle sighting in Vancouver on a given day, based on 72 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 96th most-seen of the 482 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April to July
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Two-Spotted Lady Beetle in Vancouver on a given day, against under 5% in August to March, the lowest months. Those are among Vancouver's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain a month against 210 mm in November.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Two-Spotted Lady Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
61st of 70
Of the 70 cities where we can rate Two-Spotted Lady Beetle sightings, Vancouver ranks 61st at about 10%. The best odds are in Ankara (Turkey, about 40%), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan, about 30%) and Manchester (United Kingdom, about 30%).
Same family: Coccinellidae
The closest relatives of the Two-Spotted Lady Beetle that you can see in Vancouver (family Coccinellidae, Lady Beetles) are Asian Lady Beetle (about 30%), Seven-Spotted Lady Beetle (about 10%) and Twenty-Spotted Lady Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Two-Spotted Lady Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Vancouver (72 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
