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Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - female
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - Female
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
May 16, 2005
Contributed by tom murray on 18 May, 2005 - 9:20pm
Last updated 10 May, 2012 - 10:34am

female, it looks like
Not much of the front of the head visible at this angle, but there's definitely a dark area in the middle of the "face," right between the antennae.
… Abigail Parker, 10 September, 2009 - 4:50pm

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