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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Harmonia » Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis)
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Looks like a Larval something-Beetle? - Harmonia axyridis
Copyright © 2005 Jo Ann Poe-McGavin

Looks like a Larval something-Beetle? - Harmonia axyridis
Jim Thorpe, PA 18229, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA
September 26, 2005
Size: 1/4 inch approx
When a annoyed it did a headstand sort of thing. Hard shell in the back end.

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Looks like a Larval something-Beetle? - Harmonia axyridis Looks like a Larval something-Beetle? - Harmonia axyridis Looks like a Larval something-Beetle? - Harmonia axyridis
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Contributed by Jo Ann Poe-McGavin on 27 September, 2005 - 4:42pm
Last updated 11 December, 2007 - 6:39pm

Coccinellidae pupal defenses
These pupae can "bite" as you have observed when you touched it. That way they don't need to camouflage themselves. One can just brush them lightly with a hair and see what happens, poor ants legs... I read about this in Eisner's book For Love of Insects.
The back end is the larva's skin.
… Maria Fremlin, 30 April, 2006 - 4:28am login or register to post comments

 
They bite?
I'm not surprised. It didn't bite me but the some of the adults of this species have in the past.

And they didn't need much provocation for it either-just walking in the grass.

Thanks

Jo
… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 2 May, 2006 - 1:33pm login or register to post comments

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