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03-29-2018, 12:22 PM
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03-29-2018, 12:48 PM
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03-29-2018, 03:18 PM
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03-29-2018, 04:38 PM
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Hate to break it to you, but that looks like Harmonia axyridis, the asian ladybug... (though a bit hard to tell based on the angle and soft focus).
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03-29-2018, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by camille1585
Hate to break it to you, but that looks like Harmonia axyridis, the asian ladybug... (though a bit hard to tell based on the angle and soft focus).
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I believe you're right. They were here when I moved in last fall. Aside from being non native they perform the same function as our native species.
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03-29-2018, 05:57 PM
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I love lady bugs. I have a few of the native type indoors on my plants every winter...they sneak inside somehow. 
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03-29-2018, 06:31 PM
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Quote:
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I believe you're right. They were here when I moved in last fall. Aside from being non native they perform the same function as our native species.
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Correct that they are non native and perform the same function, but it comes at a very high cost for the native species. Harmonia reproduce faster than the natives and are very voracious, even eating the larvae of the native species.Theyve also been shown to carry a fungus deadly for the natives. As a result the native species populations are in decline in North America and in Europe. In areas where Harmonia is very successful the natives are all but wiped out and are in decline everywhere else. The 9 spotted one is in serious trouble.Thethe problem is compounded by habitat loss. The Asian ladybug is an ecological disaster, and I have no mercy on them.
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03-29-2018, 07:41 PM
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So, we see very few Asian lady beetles or natives now. They used to be prolific on our polar trees. However we are over run by brown marmated stink bugs.
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03-31-2018, 01:19 PM
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Now just how sad is that. I didn't know this scary stuff. I think I have the native. Do they have not as much spotting?
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