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Fungus Eating Lady Bird

Illeis galbula

Description:

Lady bird size beetle. Black and yellow. This one is sitting on something! Is it prey or eggs?

Habitat:

On a spinach leaf in the vegetable garden

Notes:

Would really like to know what this beetle is doing. Hope someone can shed some light on it for me.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Fungus-eating Ladybird
Illeis galbula Fungus-eating Ladybird - Illeis galbula


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2 Comments

KerryHawkins
KerryHawkins 10 years ago

Thankyou bayucca. I think you are right. It was the closest I could come with my limited resources.

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Looks for me more like Illeis galbula than Archegleis barronensis. What do you think?

KerryHawkins
Spotted by
KerryHawkins

New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Feb 20, 2014
Submitted on Feb 20, 2014

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