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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Hippodamia » Variegated Lady Beetle (Hippodamia variegata)
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Mountaintop ladybug - Hippodamia variegata
Copyright © 2010 John F. Carr

Mountaintop ladybug - Hippodamia variegata
Mount Greylock, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
August 7, 2010
Size: 4 mm (approx.)

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Mountaintop ladybug - Hippodamia variegata Profile - Hippodamia variegata
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Contributed by John F. Carr on 8 August, 2010 - 7:06am
Last updated 31 May, 2018 - 3:43pm

Moved
Moved from Convergent Lady Beetle.
… James Bailey, 31 May, 2018 - 3:43pm login or register to post comments

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… Abigail Parker, 18 May, 2011 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

H. convergens in Massachusetts
I apparently wasn't paying enough attention to the location the first time I looked at these - the only species that looks like this in Massachusetts is H. convergens. (Out West it's harder to tell!)
… Abigail Parker, 18 May, 2011 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

 
Range limit
This is the easternmost photo on BugGuide, at the west end of Massachusetts. Is it rare in New England?
… John F. Carr, 18 May, 2011 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

 
distribution does vary
This is one of the widest-ranging species of lady beetle, covering the entire US "lower 48" and most of southern Cananda, but it isn't equally common everywhere in its range. It's hugely common in the west, where it gathers by the hundreds-of-thousands on mountaintops in winter, but I've never seen similar gatherings in the east. (Maybe the mountains just aren't high enough!)
… Abigail Parker, 19 May, 2011 - 8:09am login or register to post comments

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