Hippodamia tredecimpunctata
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Hippodamia tredecimpunctata, commonly known as the thirteen-spot ladybeetle, is a species of lady beetle. Adult H. tredecimpunctata have domed backs, mainly oval, often shiny with short legs and antennae. They have two wing covers. They are usually red to orange in color. This species has thirteen dark or black spots. The larvae are slightly flattened and covered with miniature spines. Very small eggs are laid in groups of 10–50 on the undersides of leaves.
The species is distributed throughout much of the northern hemisphere - Europe, North Africa, European Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Western Asia, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, and North America. In North America, it can be found in Canada and the northern United States. The relative abundance of this species has decreased in many regions (midwestern US, Maine, Quebec, and New Brunswick) following the introduction of the non-native ladybeetle Coccinella septempunctata. On the other hand, H. tredecimpunctata appears to coexist with non-native ladybeetles in Manitoba and Ontario.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elk Island National Park | 🇨🇦 Canada |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novosibirsk | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 2 | Edmonton | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 3 | Helsinki | 🇫🇮 Finland | |
| 4 | Kazan | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 5 | Seoul | 🇰🇷 South Korea | |
| 6 | Calgary | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 7 | Vancouver | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 8 | Nizhny Novgorod | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 9 | Kyiv | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | |
| 10 | Beijing | 🇨🇳 China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Thirteen-Spotted Lady Beetle sighting in Elk Island National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 85th most-seen of the 112 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Thirteen-Spotted Lady Beetle in Elk Island National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September to May, the lowest months. That is one of Elk Island National Park's wettest months, with about 110 mm of rain against 20 mm in December.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Thirteen-Spotted Lady Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Elk Island National Park, in our data
Elk Island National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Thirteen-Spotted Lady Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Coccinellidae
The closest relatives of the Thirteen-Spotted Lady Beetle that you can see in Elk Island National Park (family Coccinellidae, Lady Beetles) are Seven-Spotted Lady Beetle (about 30%), Marsh Lady Beetle (about 10%) and Eye-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 Thirteen-Spotted Lady Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Elk Island National Park (7 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
