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17-SEP-2013 Christine Hanrahan

Twenty-spotted ladybeetle (Psyllobora vigintimaculata)

This is a very tiny lady beetle, usually less than 2 mm, sometimes up to 3 mm. It is unusual in being a fungus and mildew feeder. Indeed, though you can't tell here, the leaf it is on had quite a bit of mildew and nearby were other leaves more mildewed, and with more of these little insects. In my own garden, I have found a large number of these lady beetles in all stages, larva, nymph, and adult, on mildewed leaves of sunflowers. At first glance they look like very tiny versions of the fourteen-spotted lady beetle.

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Marcia Colelli29-Sep-2013 16:29
Very nice capture of this cute little lady. Wonderful contrasting green background V
Guest 18-Sep-2013 22:24
Isn't that the cutest little thing! And TINY!!
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