fourteen-spotted lady beetle, Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) - 1322018

fourteen-spotted lady beetle
Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Descriptor: Adult(s)
Description: Three-sixteenths-inch-long Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (14-spot) lady beetles look for aphids on a fava bean leaf. Scientists think the beetles might be helpful in controlling Russian wheat aphids that now infest 17 Great Plains and Western states.
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Image location: United States

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Name: Scott Bauer
Organization: USDA Agricultural Research Service
Country: United States

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Image uploaded on Wednesday, March 05, 2003
Image Information last updated on Friday, December 08, 2006