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Multi-colored Asian Lady Beetle
Harmonia axyridis
29.1872, -82.1401
Field Notes
Description:
Your typical "ladybug". Shell red, with 19 spots. Pronotum (area just behind the head) is white, sorta saddle-shaped, with curved black areas toward the central area. About the size of my pinky fingernail.
Habitat:
On my asparagus bean vine, happily devouring the aphids.
Notes:
Even though this species is not a native, I couldn't have been happier to discover this ladybug! We are having an awful problem with aphids, and I refuse to use pesticide spray in my garden.
Introduced from Japan, I think, to help in garden and farm pest control. They and their larvae (esp. the larvae!) are voracious predators of many garden insect pests, such as aphids.
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PublishedMay 15, 2013
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