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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Harmonia » Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis)
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lady bird beetle larva - Harmonia axyridis
Copyright © 2009 Ilse Gebhard

lady bird beetle larva - Harmonia axyridis
Alamo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA
June 24, 2009
Is this lady beetle larva old enough (6 days) to ID it as Harmonia axyridis?

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Contributed by Ilse Gebhard on 24 June, 2009 - 9:38am
Last updated 13 November, 2010 - 3:52pm

Good pic of 3rd instar
I'm working on a Guide article on H. axyridis larvae and the 3rd instar is really not photographed very often! Lots of egg hatches and 4th instars and pupae, but the 2nd and 3rd instars don't turn up on the Guide very much.

I'd like to use your image in the article, even though it's a bit blurry - the color pattern is perfect.

How did it go with all your larvae? Did you keep, release, or destroy the adults?
… Abigail Parker, 19 July, 2009 - 1:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle.
… Domingo Zungri, 5 July, 2009 - 8:13am login or register to post comments

and aphids...
Munching on aphids! Good girl!
… GValHart, 24 June, 2009 - 10:34am login or register to post comments

Asian ladybug
Apparently the branched spines are distinctive.
… John F. Carr, 24 June, 2009 - 10:06am login or register to post comments

 
yes, double-branched spines unique
At least in North America, only H. axyridis has the double-branched tips of the abdominal tubercules. Not even the other Harmonia species we sometimes have here, H. dimidiata, has them.

They're evident (under magnification) within 24 hours of egg hatch, making H. axyridis identifiable to species in its earliest instar.
… Abigail Parker, 18 July, 2009 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

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