Archive for the ‘Lady beetles’ Category.
15th December 2007, 06:22 am
One of the feral apple trees about 100 yards behind the house has very “late” apples, that stay on the tree a loooong time. As in, as of now (mid-December, with a couple of feet of snow on the ground), it still has some apples that were too high for the deer to eat. The apples were actually getting ripe in mid-October, and one of them that I picked to eat had a deep crevice in its surface[1]. Down in the bottom of the crevice was this beetle:
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18th March 2007, 02:40 pm
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.
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