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Found by Branch Elementary students on a Ladybug hunt at their field trip in the Nature Gardens!
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus (East). Habitat: Phormium tenax, infested with Pseudococcus longispinus. Identification: Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant, 1853.
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Photo captive
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Auckland Central, 13 Eden Crescent. Habitat: Agathis robusta. Cultivated in the gardens of the Auckland Law School. Found on the same leaf as several Nipaecoccus aurilanatus (possible prey, but no actual feeding observed). Identification: Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant, 1853.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Auckland Central, 13 Eden Crescent. Habitat: Agathis robusta. Cultivated in the gardens of the Auckland Law School. Found on the same leaf as several Nipaecoccus aurilanatus (possible prey, but no actual feeding observed). Identification: Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant, 1853.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Mount Albert, 830 New North Rd. Habitat: Agathis robusta. Cultivated. On leaves. Found with Nipaecoccus aurilanatus (probable prey, but no actual feeding observed). Identification: Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant, 1853.
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Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Mount Albert, 830 New North Rd. Habitat: Agathis robusta. Cultivated. On leaves. Found with Nipaecoccus aurilanatus (probable prey, but no actual feeding observed). Identification: Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant, 1853.
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On ballon plant milkweed(was infested with aphid).
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Larvae eating aphids on a hibiscus plant.
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I've had quite a view of these larvae having a buffet of bugs my Gerbera daisies.
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I've had quite a view of these larvae having a buffet of bugs my Gerbera daisies.
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I've had quite a view of these larvae having a buffet of bugs my Gerbera daisies.
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