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--Apple-Mail-93-568629050 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Paul, we had a similar report last night at the Blomidon Naturalists Society regular meeting. I think it was Claire Diggins of Middleton who reported dozens or hundreds? of lady beetles seen together. She didn't describe them, but I'll bet it was an Autumn aggregation of multi-colored Asian (alias variable) lady beetles, which are very variable in appearance, having up to 19 spots or many fewer or even no spots at all. And the colour varies from reddish through orange to yellowish along with a quite variable body size. The pattern of white and black on the thorax is relatively non-variable, so notice that. Here are two sites I found by Googling "multi-colored lady beetle": Asian Lady Beetle Infestation Of Structures | University of Kentucky ... www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef416.asp - Cached - Similar 10 Jan 2010 ... The Asian Lady Beetle, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas), is relatively new to ... Multi- spotted individuals tend to be females while those with few or no ... Lady Beetles Photo Gallery by lejun at pbase.com www.pbase.com/lejun/ladybeetles - Cached Spotted Lady Beetle, Well, hello there! Seven-spotted Lady Beetle. Seven- spotted Lady Beetle, Seven-spotted Lady Beetle, Polished Lady Beetle, Multi- colored ... Paul and Claire, let us know if these photos of Harmonia axyridis match what you saw. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ------------------------ Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com> > Date: October 16, 2012 8:55:29 AM ADT > To: Nature NS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: [NatureNS] Lady Bugs > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi All > Yesterday being a lovely day and doing some get ready for winter > chores > the front door was open quite a bit. At dark when I was finishing > up I noticed > dozens of Lady Bugs in the front porch. Never see them around at other > times but they were coming in yesterday. Susposed to be good insects. > Maybe they were escaping the flocks of mosquitos who were outside. > Enjoy the fall > Paul --Apple-Mail-93-568629050 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webk= it-line-break: after-white-space; "> Paul, we had a similar report last night at the Blomidon Naturalists Societ= y regular meeting. I think it was Claire Diggins of Middleton who rep= orted dozens or hundreds? of lady beetles seen together. She didn't d= escribe them, but I'll bet it was an Autumn aggregation of multi-colored As= ian (alias variable) lady beetles, which are very variable in appearance, h= aving up to 19 spots or many fewer or even no spots at all. And the c= olour varies from reddish through orange to yellowish along with a quite va= riable body size. The pattern of white and black on the thorax is rel= atively non-variable, so notice that. 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