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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Oct 02, 2007

Adalia decempunctata

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Oct 02, 2007

I'm sorry, it doesn't make sense! I count 19 spots in this one!
Didn't sleep enough last night!

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Oct 02, 2007

The 10 spot LB has from 0 to 15 spots!

http://www.ladybird-survey.org/UKladybirds/species_desc.aspx?species=6455%2059502

More variations here,

http://www.communigate.co.uk/hants/snhs/page16.phtml

Give me a little time to look around, back later.

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Oct 02, 2007

I have checked everything else, and come back to the Harlequin Ladybird!

Take a look at the description of the black marks on the pronotum, the spots can be fused into two curved lines.

http://www.harlequin-survey.org/recognition_and_distinction.htm

" Pronotum pattern: white or cream with up to 5 spots or fused lateral spots forming 2 curved lines, M-shaped mark or solid trapezoid"

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Oct 02, 2007

I agree, this looks like one of the many variations of the Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis): http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/2228/

Kennedy

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Oct 02, 2007

Thank you so much for all your efforts to help me through these terribly confusing identifications...
I don't think I have a gift for this, after looking through all the available information I get a kind of black-out..and mess it all up!

But the conclusion is that almost all the ladybirds in my garden, and there were a lot this spring, are Harlequins! The only native one I noticed was the common 7-spotted one, but there were not even many of those.
You have noticed your first one last September,( I've read in the other thread), then I wonder if this is representative for the respective countries....
I know they have been introduced in Europe as an ecologic pest-control in agriculture. But I wonder why they didn't use the native ones for that ?

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Oct 02, 2007

Thanks Kennedy!
(posts had crossed because I'm slow....)

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2vernes Blytheville, AR(Zone 7a) Oct 03, 2007

Had no idea that there is so many variations of spots on the ladybird beetle. Have any of you been around and invasion of the ladybugs? Thousand tried to find a home in my MILs car and she had a time debugging her car. They stink, too. SheVerne

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