Early autumn ladybugs raid (1 Viewer)

locustella

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• Oct 6, 2013

• #1

What's that ? Invasive Asiatic Harlequin ladybird Harmonia axyridis ? Today 25 on window in the kitchen (outside), more flying. Looks like search for hide before winter. Warsaw, east from Wisła River.

 

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locustella

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• Oct 7, 2013

• #2

Harmonia axyridis in all images.

 

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Zheljko

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• Oct 7, 2013

• #3

Yes, we had them today as well
My sister commented that just yesterday she thought how we got one autumn free of ladybug invasion.
(They smell horribly, so wash your hands and everything else they touch)

 

locustella

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• Oct 9, 2013

• #4

Today again many Harlequin ladybirds Harmonia axyridis are flying along the walls the building I live in, some of them land on window. Perhaps because if sunny weather ?

 

locustella

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• Dec 4, 2013

• #5

harlequin ladybird and the Enemy Release Hypothesis
http://www.topix.net/science/ecolog...nemies-while-native-species-succumb?fromrss=1