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Found at Cannon Hill Park, where I've seen individuals of this species before. This was the only Hippodamia tredecimpunctata that I found today; there were lots of Hippodamia convergens and Harmonia axyridis. It was crawling fast, so I got it to walk on my thumb for a while. Then it went back on to the tall grass growing by the side of the pond.
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Found at Cannon Hill Park, where I've seen individuals of this species before. This was the only Hippodamia tredecimpunctata that I found today; there were lots of Hippodamia convergens and Harmonia axyridis. It was crawling fast, so I got it to walk on my thumb for a while. Then it went back on to the tall grass growing by the side of the pond.
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Found at Cannon Hill Park, where I've seen individuals of this species before. This was the only Hippodamia tredecimpunctata that I found today; there were lots of Hippodamia convergens and Harmonia axyridis. It was crawling fast, so I got it to walk on my thumb for a while. Then it went back on to the tall grass growing by the side of the pond.
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Swept by Marc Alain, participant of our weekly iNaturalist Insect Bio-Blitz program. NEW for the park and the first I have seen in nearly a decade.
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In road side ditch interlake
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In road side ditch interlake
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In road side ditch interlake
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Both this individual and another seen down at MacLaren Pond today were spotted by Anthony Brooks' Git'pu eyes ;) These are only the third and fourth individuals I have seen in almost twenty years of ladybugging.
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Chronologically, this was the first of two individuals seen of this species today. Compare elytral and pronotal markings with this individual seen at the Visitor's Centre about 40 mins later: http://www.inaturalist.ca/observations/3713721 Although we have been sweep netting weekly at this location since 2013 in July and August with 10-50 volunteers, this is only my second record of the species at this location, a wet meadow adjacent to MacLaren Pond.
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Swept from damp meadow.