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eating eachother - Harmonia axyridis
Copyright © 2006 Jonathan Burishkin

eating eachother - Harmonia axyridis
Collegedale, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
April 22, 2006
There were a ton of them, they looked like they were eating eachother.
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Contributed by Jonathan Burishkin on 22 April, 2006 - 4:43pm
Last updated 11 December, 2007 - 6:23pm

Harmonia axyridis - Multicolored Asian Ladybird Beetle
- pupa on the left and larva on the right. Branched spines and orange stripes of the larva are used for ID. I don't know if they are known to be cannibalistic.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 22 April, 2006 - 6:09pm login or register to post comments

 
cannibalism in Harmonia axyridis
Hi: we had an unusually heavy "crop" of ladybirds two years ago, and hey are highly cannibalistic. I watched larva eating eggs, adults eating eggs, and larva eating pupa. At least under conditions where there are many of these ladybirds, adults and developing, cannibalism seems to be a very significant food source.
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