The pupa becomes an adult ladybug in a couple weeks. While frogs, wasps, spiders and dragonflies will eat ladybugs, their major predator are birds.

Though ladybug larvae may be intimidating, they’re not harmful to humans. They crawl around, feeding and growing, until they’re ready to turn into something even weirder … 9.

But the entire life cycle of a ladybug (egg, larva, pupa, adult) can take up to two years to complete,” according to a post by wildlife biologist Kathryn Reis at Study.com.

Ladybugs and their larvae are good to have around because they feed on insect eggs and insects, like aphids, that we don’t want in the garden. But Schultz has a narrower goal in mind.

It sheds its outer layer, legs and all, to reveal a ladybug pupa. An in-between stage where it can spend some time alone figuring out who it really wants to be. It spends the next week going through a ...

In the larvae stage the ladybugs are about ¼-inch long with a long segmented black body and orange spots. I think the shape of the larva look similar to that of an alligator.

The ladybug larvae come out hungry and on the prowl for soft-bodied insects such as mites, aphids and white flies. It's at this stage that many people mistake this insect for a plant-eating pest.

Ladybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don't start off that way. ... It sheds its outer layer, legs and all, to reveal a ladybug pupa.