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Harmonia Axiridis
Asien Marienkäfer
Hedge
On it's elytrae you can see a Fungus: Laboulbeniales! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboulben...
Spotted on Nov 8, 2012
Submitted on Nov 8, 2012
19 Comments
sure ! but disturbing to me is that even during my tour through the Kalkalpen NP i saw the harlequin ...
well as I found somewhere, the key should be the thin white line in between eyes. Possibly the cities are always possible source of intruders ;)
well, after sufficient research i can safely say - you were right !!! while i found several h.axyridis - there were not even one of a.bipunctata - maybe this species was completely replaced by its larger asian cousin in this region ...
Ok :))) This is very interesting, let me know if you spot another! I would also expect harmonia in much more urban or "human contaminated area" but the last spotting was on my way to the mountains, but that was the only harmonia I saw that day whilst all the other were native species and in normal size!
I see your point - it's just that i havent seen harmonia in this habitat yet why i'm not convinced - i'll keep an eye on that matter this season ... maybe your right !
I know, but harmonia is widespread already, plus I have found one extremely small : http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/215... in the wilderness, here is the explanation for the size in comments http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/212...
the typical M pronotum macula is missing and harmonia usually is a larger coccinellid while this one was half the size, besides adalia is native to the meadows next to my site ... but i understand - the size is hardly to see on a photo !
I am sure this is a tricky one! At first sight both are correct. And my problem is know: Whom can I trust?? I do not mean whom of you guys, you both have good arguments, but all the pictures on the net, are they really correctly identified? Do you have any trustable sites for this ones?? The more I am looking the more I get confused...
Plus the spots are too big and not totally round, i am sure that this is asian
hi! thx for your suggestion, but i'm sorry i cannot agree as there occurs a black morph of A.bipunctata and the thoracal maculae are characteristic, furthermore has that harmonia typus larger elytrical spots ..
I am pretty much sure that this is not Adalia bipucntata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalia_bipu... this is an asian ladybug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harmon...
I was just told that it is a Fungus! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboulben...
Thank you bayucca - this was quite informative !!
Nice spotting! I know that wasp are often parasiting ladybirds. The larva of the later wasp is even making a cocoon under the body of the ladybird. Sometimes the ladybird is recovering from this attack! But I can't say anything more to this spotting.
Thank you Jeannette !
Nice spotting ;-)
You're right its just like that, they appear from Time to Time in that coloration
That like the apposite of the red ones,maybe a albino
yep, i dont See them very often...