Which kind of Lady Bug? - Harmonia axyridis

Harmonia axyridis

The w-shaped black area on the pronotum (behind the head) indicates that it's the Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis). These are extremely variable, with varying numbers and arrangements of spots.

By the way: when you're posting someone else's images, put their name under Copyright Owner , so their name will show under the image and not yours. In this case it's just a technicality, but correct attribution is a good habit to get into here.

… Chuck Entz, 10 June, 2006 - 11:45pm

I know

I know I saw a video about these kind of lady bugs and that's when I found out the truth!

… Brittanie McCormack, 22 June, 2006 - 12:33pm

Thanks and....

Thanks!

Oh, about the photo-she's my 15 year old daughter. I didn't know you could do that-so that's why I have the photographer's name on the photos. Can that be changed after the posting? and how do you do that?

Seems like almost every Ladybug we find is that species anymore.

Jo

… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 11 June, 2006 - 2:58pm

Easy!

Click on Edit under the image, look for the Copyright Owner box near the bottom of the page, and put her name in there. Then click submit.

Like I said, it's not like you're going to get in legal hot water over not crediting your daughter in that particular spot- but it's a good habit to get into.

Harmonia axyridis is an aggressive, invasive non-native that has many concerned it may wipe out other, native ladybugs. Both the larvae and adults kill and eat other species of ladybugs.

Oddly enough, I've seen very few this year in my yard, but I have lots of Hippodamia convergens, Cycloneda polita, Scymnus sp., and the non-native Coccinellia septempunctata.

… Chuck Entz, 11 June, 2006 - 9:44pm

Thank-you ^_^

I didn't see the copyright at the bottom-and I went and fixed them all (like 6 of them). ^_^

I noticed that those Ladybugs (Harmonia axyridis) seem to bite people too. We had a very unpleasant experience a bit ago while walking through some grass-and the darned things started to attack and bite. I'm not sure what set them off-being disturbed or perhaps since it was a very dry summer-they were looking for liquids or what.
(do they do that?)

… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 13 June, 2006 - 1:20am

Biting?

I've never heard of Ladybugs biting anything bigger than they are. Maybe you were an aphid in a previous life... :)

… Chuck Entz, 13 June, 2006 - 1:37am

I had never heard of that either un

I had never heard of that either until it happened.

I got a note on my photoof the larvae of this species that said those bite too.

I think I'm just a bite magnet O_o

… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 13 June, 2006 - 12:38pm

I'll Bet That If Laura.......

Clicks Here she will find her Lady Beetle plus many others.

… Bob Patterson, 10 June, 2006 - 10:35pm

Thanks ^_^ Laura said tha

Thanks ^_^

Laura said thanks, too, and went right to the page--after which was followed by many "Awwwwwwwws"-she's a Ladybug fan. ^_^

… Jo Ann Poe-McGavin, 11 June, 2006 - 2:54pm