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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Propylea » Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle (Propylea quatuordecimpunctata)
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14-spotted lady beetle egg - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
Copyright © 2009 Abigail Parker

14-spotted lady beetle egg - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 26, 2009
Size: ~1.2 mm
Note the pale green color, unlike the orange eggs of most other lady beetles. There was originally a small egg mass (4 or 5 eggs), but unfortunately the others were lost in transit.

Plant: Maple (Acer sp.). The tree was a small, bushy sapling, under 5 feet (1.6 m) tall.

(For life cycle photos of another lady beetle species collected from the same tree, start here: http://bugguide.net/node/view/300996.)

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14-spotted lady beetle egg - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata 14-spotted lady beetle larva - Day 1 - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata 14-spotted lady beetle larva - Day 2 - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male 14-spotted lady beetle larva - Day 3 - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male 14-spotted lady beetle larva - Day 4 - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male 14-spotted lady beetle larva - Day 5 - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male 14-spotted lady beetle larva with prey - Day 6 - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male 14-spotted lady beetle larva - Day 7 - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male 14-spotted lady beetle larva - Day 8 (a), prepupa - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male 14-spotted lady beetle larva - Day 8 (b), prepupa - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata 14-spotted lady beetle pupa - Day 9 (a) - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata 14-spotted lady beetle pupa - Day 9 (b) - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata 14-spotted lady beetle with prey - Day 13 - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male
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Contributed by Abigail Parker on 25 July, 2009 - 2:20pm
Last updated 10 May, 2012 - 10:31am

Bravo!
This is so valuable! I wish that more people took this approach; sometimes there is too much guess work involved.
… Beatriz Moisset, 25 July, 2009 - 3:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Great series,
well done!
… Marie L. Schmidt, 25 July, 2009 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
I'm really happy to be able to provide these images. Raising the larvae was enjoyable and only difficult when my garden ran out of aphids - which was about 6 days after egg hatch of the first lady beetle species. So now I'm also getting good at identifying aphid foodplants in the vacant lots and sidewalk cracks of Philadelphia!
… Abigail Parker, 25 July, 2009 - 6:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Great series of photos, Abigail.
Very educational.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 13 August, 2009 - 8:58am login or register to post comments

 
Much appreciated!
I consider that a great compliment coming from the Lady of the Tree Crickets - your work with them is inspiring!

(And I do not mean any offense with the nickname, but that's how I pronounce "Oecanthinancy" in my head when I'm reading it :-)
… Abigail Parker, 16 August, 2009 - 8:35pm login or register to post comments

 
No offense at all...
...when I was into birding, someone called me the bird lady :) Apparently very few people are able to pronounce my 'name' -- but I say it as "ee can THIGH Nan see"

BTW, here in Wisconsin a major source of aphids in mid summer is Goldenrod plants -- especially when the buds are emerging.
… Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, 16 August, 2009 - 9:49pm login or register to post comments

 
aphid plants
Not a lot of goldenrod in the Philadelphia weed population, for some reason (we certainly have a lot of other weeds!), but I'm starting to see some of it. My aphids came from chrysanthemum in June, lady's thumb/smartweed (Polygonum) in July, and sow thistle (Spercus) in late July/August. I've stopped using oleander aphids, since they can be toxic, but they sure were visible and abundant from mid-July onward.
… Abigail Parker, 17 August, 2009 - 9:13am login or register to post comments

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