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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Fungus-eating Lady Beetles (Psyllobora) » Twenty-Spotted Lady Beetle (Psyllobora vigintimaculata)
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Beetle ID Request - Psyllobora vigintimaculata
Copyright © 2009 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Beetle ID Request - Psyllobora vigintimaculata
Herring Run Watershed, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
July 27, 2009
Observed around an Acer saccharinum [=incidental?]

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Beetle ID Request - Psyllobora vigintimaculata Beetle ID Request - Psyllobora vigintimaculata
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 28 July, 2009 - 6:25am
Last updated 21 February, 2010 - 12:03pm

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… Kevin Hall, 29 July, 2009 - 9:02am login or register to post comments

Psyllobora vigintimaculata
The itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny twenty-spotted lady beetle.

It'd be helpful to include the size of the insects - knowing that this beetle is about 3mm long rules out most lady beetles, even without its distinctive pattern. (If you don't have a ruler when you're outside taking the photo, try measuring something else in the photo later, like the weave of the denim here.)
… Abigail Parker, 28 July, 2009 - 8:37am login or register to post comments

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