Other Common Names
Twenty-Spotted Ladybird Beetle
Twenty-Spotted Ladybug
Wee-Tiny Ladybug
Explanation of Names
vigintimaculata is Latin for "20-spotted"
Numbers
One of six Nearctic species in the genus.
Size
Small! Length 2 to 2.5 mm.
Range
University of Guelph site gives the range as "Labrador to Alaska and south to Mexico" and notes that this species is the only Psyllobora found in northeastern North America.
Habitat
"In early Spring this species occurs in numbers about the base of skunk cabbage and on leaves of various shrubs."
(1)Food
Unlike most ladybugs, these and related species feed on fungus (mostly mildew on leaf surfaces).
