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Harmonia axyridis
Your typical "ladybug". Shell red, with 19 spots. Pronotum (area just behind the head) is white, sorta saddle-shaped, with curved black areas toward the central area. About the size of my pinky fingernail.
On my asparagus bean vine, happily devouring the aphids.
Even though this species is not a native, I couldn't have been happier to discover this ladybug! We are having an awful problem with aphids, and I refuse to use pesticide spray in my garden. Introduced from Japan, I think, to help in garden and farm pest control. They and their larvae (esp. the larvae!) are voracious predators of many garden insect pests, such as aphids.
Spotted on May 14, 2013
Submitted on May 15, 2013
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