Coleomegilla maculata, is an oval, medium-sized ladybug about 5-6 mm in length. Their color will vary from pink to orange, with six spots on each forewing. Once the female lady beetle has mated she can lay from 200 to more than 1,000 eggs during her one to five month life span. She is selective about where she lays her egg, locating them very close to a food source such as aphids. The eggs are small, orangish, and spindle-shaped.  They are laid in clusters of 10 to 15.  They larvae will soon emerge from their eggs and immediately look for prey.  The larvae will be unrecognizable to most, being that the immature Pink Spot does not resemble the adult at all.  They look like small alligators that are black with yellow bands and are wingless.  They will have three pairs of legs like the adult beetles, but that is about the only similarity.  Once the larvae find food they immediately begin to feed.  The Pink Spotted Lady Beetle larva and adult are general predators. This means they have a wide variety of food in their diet. They love aphids, mites, insect eggs, as well as pollen. They will feed on almost any soft-bodied insect.  Being they feed on pollen too, crops that produce pollen provide extra incentive for Pinks to stick around.  As the larvae continue to feed they will grow and need to molt their skins.  They will do this several times before developing into an adult.  Once the larvae reaches a length of 8-9 mm, which takes about two weeks, it will then attach its self to a leaf to pupate.  They adult can emerge in three to twelve days depending on the temperature.  Once the adult emerges they will feed, mate and the cycle will repeat.