Good numbers of this native lady beetle around today, as is usually the case in autumn. Spring is the other season when they are seen in large quantities. Other than this species, not a lot of insects found, but it is getting to that downtime of the year. Noted were spittlebugs, Coelidia leafhoppers, plenty of grasshoppers and crickets, a few hover flies (probably Sphaerophoria but didn't get a good look), Muscids and greenbottle flies, a few midges, an orange fruit fly that eluded my camera, a few honey bees and sweat bees, and scads of bumble bees, in fact, hundreds and hundreds of bumble bees, most on the new england asters.