Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
This week’s arthropod is a lady beetle, most likely a Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyridis. When these first started getting into the house, we thought that we were being invaded by a dozen different species, because they vary in their shade of orange and in the number of spots. It turns out it is just an extremely variable species, though.
They are a bit annoying in the house, flying around lights at night, leaving their malodorous little beetle corpses all over, and sometimes giving you a bit of a nip on the arm, but they do tend to keep the aphids down over the summer, so I guess we can live with them.
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