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Cleobora mellyi
A freshly ecloded Southern Ladybird beetle in a eucalyptus seed capsule (gumnut). the pupal case can be seen still attached to the inside of the gumnut. The eucalyptus tree was a West Australian flowering gum.
Spotted in a nature reserve
These gumnuts are large and house different types of creatures. They form great little shelters !. I often see spiders but this is the first spotting of a ladybird. The Southern Ladybird preys on Chrysomelid leaf beetle larvae and psyllids. My previous spotting of this beetle http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/154... Family: Coccinellidae
Spotted on Nov 17, 2013
Submitted on Nov 30, 2013
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