What colour are the spots on a common ladybird?
Ladybird of Szeged psychologist József Király. 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. English-language sources tend to use either Ladybird (UK) or Ladybug (US), depending on the variety of English used. Nonetheless all of these names refer to the original robot, not to any of the replicas. The Ladybird is a roughly hemispherical robot which is wide, tall and long. It has a metal baseplate on which the electronics lie, which are enclosed by a red shell with black spots.
Cream-spot ladybird "quatuordecim", the Latin for "fourteen" and "guttata", the Latin for "spotted". This ladybird is also sometimes known as the cream-spotted ladybird, the polkadot ladybird or the eighteen spot ladybird and may be confused with another beetle also known as the eighteen-spot ladybird ("Myrrha octodecimguttata"). The latter is usually found on pine trees and is smaller and a paler brown colour and has a characteristic M-shaped white mark on its pronotum. The cream-spot ladybird measures long and broad. It is very variable in colouration in North America. In Europe the species is consistently maroon-brown with fourteen cream-coloured spots, but in North