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Mating Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetles - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - male - female
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Mating Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetles - Propylea quatuordecimpunctata - Male Female
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 7, 2005
The pronotum patterns are different on these 2 beetles. Is that a normal difference between the 2 sexes, especially the 2 orange spots on the male?
Contributed by tom murray on 8 August, 2005 - 9:54pm

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