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Coccinella Californica
California ladybug looking for aphids on my fennel.
Urban house vegetable garden.
Typical form: Red or orange, no spots, black suture (where the wings meet, down the middle of the back). The black suture may expand into a small diamond-shaped patch near the base of the wings. Pronotum (between wings and head) black with a white patch on each side Head black with two small white spots between the eyes bugguide.net
Spotted on May 15, 2012
Submitted on May 20, 2012
2 Comments
Thank you Maria. The California Lady Beetle, "johnsoni" form has spots, but I have never seen one:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/636906
Nice one, Misako! I used to think they always had spots so these look like they have something missing to me. ;)