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Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - Harmonia axyridis
Copyright © 2009 Molly Jacobson

Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle - Harmonia axyridis
Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA
June 20, 2009
Size: 1 cm.
Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 21 June, 2009 - 2:36pm

Harmonia axyridis
Multicolored Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis. A non-native species that competes with our native lady beetles, but at least in spring and summer it's a useful aphid-eater. (In fall/winter they become particularly pesty by eating fruit and moving into houses.)
… Abigail M. Parker, 21 June, 2009 - 2:52pm

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