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Harmonia axyridis
Harmonia axyridis is a large coccinellid beetle. Its colour ranges from yellow-orange to black, and the number of spots between 0 and 22. It is native to eastern Asia, but has been introduced to North America and Europe to control aphids and scale insects. It is now common, well known and spreading in those regions.
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Spotted on Jan 15, 2013
Submitted on Jan 17, 2013
3 Comments
Thanks for the support ForestDragon, hope it gets easier to me to identify this wonderful creatures.
Nice spotting Phillip. I agree with Jerry. Take a look at the images on the link you provided and compare to the image that Jerry provided and your spotting.
Here is the link to the Bugguide info page on the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/397
Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_ax...
You are right, I thought this species was Harmonia axyridis as well, but I spotted it some time ago, so I thought they were different species, the thing that confuses me is that they are extremely variable, I mean how can this : http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/173... be the exact same species of this spotting, they should be considered as subspecies, so it's easier to
identify and less easier to get confused. I'm going to update the spotting, thanks for your help!