Translation for '
ladybird' from English to Croatian
| NOUN | a ladybird | ladybirds | |
| SYNO | lady beetle | ladybeetle | ladybird | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- In the United Kingdom, there are fears that the seven-spot ladybird is being outcompeted for food by the harlequin ladybird.
- The machine is variously referred to as "Szegedi Katicabogár" (ladybird/ladybug of Szeged), "Szegedi Katica" (using a shorter word for ladybird) or just "Katica" (ladybird) in Hungarian sources, with various capitalizations.
- The 24-spot Ladybird can be distinguished from the similarly patterned Bryony Ladybird - "Henosepilachna argus" (6 to 8 mm) by its small size (3 to 4 mm).
- There is limited evidence that the ladybird "Harmonia axyridis", which is invasive in America and Europe, has an advantage over native ladybird species because it feeds more on "Pandora"-infested aphid cadavers.
- Ladybirds and their larvae feed on aphids. In America the eyed ladybird ("Anatis ocellata") specialises on the aphids colonising various trees.
- "Harmonia quadripunctata", the cream-streaked lady beetle or four-spot ladybird, is a species of ladybird belonging to the family Coccinellidae.
- "Oenopia conglobata" is a species of ladybird (Coccinellidae) native to continental Europe, Asia and Africa.
- "Cynegetis impunctata" is a species of ladybird native to continental Europe. In Germany it is known as the grass ladybird, unspotted ladybird or ochre ladybird.
- Because one large aphidophagous ladybird can consume up to 5,500 aphids in a year, any ladybird parasite represents a potential threat to agriculture.
- "Apolinus lividigaster", known as the Yellow-shouldered ladybird, is a small ladybird beetle found in Australia and New Zealand.
- "Henosepilachna vigintisexpunctata", common name twenty-six-spotted potato ladybird, is a ladybird species.
- "Diomus notescens", common name the minute two-spotted ladybird is a ladybird species endemic to the east and south of Australia.
- "Coelophora inaequalis", the variable ladybird, The variable ladybird gets its name from the black markings on the adult elytra, that vary from one individual to another.
- "Cleobora" is a monotypic genus of ladybird native to Tasmania and the southern states of mainland Australia.
- Some clones of "Aphis craccivora" are sufficiently toxic to the invasive and dominant predatory ladybird "Harmonia axyridis" to suppress it locally, favouring other ladybird species; the toxicity is in this case narrowly specific to the dominant predator species.
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