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Hippodamia convergens
I was really confused by this series, but I think misako.hill has solved the mystery. It looks like the top ladybug has been the victim of a parasitic wasp, and the orange gooey thing is a newly hatched wasp larva. The bottom ladybug is eating it. Thanks misako!
@testless: Just saw this article and am wondering if it is a wasp larva emerging from the ladybug: http://www.livescience.com/14706-ladybug...
Thanks to CindyBinghamKeiser for the ID, and KarenL for the information about ladybug cannibalism. Interesting!
http://insects.about.com/od/beetles/a/10...
If food is scarce, ladybugs will do what they must to survive, even if it means eating each other. A hungry ladybug will make a meal of any soft-bodied sibling it encounters. Newly emerged adults or recently molted larvae are soft enough for the average ladybug to chew. Eggs or pupae also provide protein to a ladybug that has run out of aphids.