Multicolored Asian lady beetle larva and aphids on rose milkweed

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Category hierarchy: Animals | Insects
Description: A multicolored Asian lady beetle larva rests on the stem of a red milkweed plant infested with bright orange aphids, the larva's primary prey, on a red milkweed plant in a northern Virginia garden.
Capture device: Camera: Fujifilm FinePix F100fd
Original date: 20080830
Locality: Latitude: 3.907680000000000e+001; Longitude: -7.765360000000000e+001
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- Life (biota)
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria (bilaterians)
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Hexapoda (hexapods)
- Insecta (insects)
- Pterygota (winged insects)
- Neoptera (neopteran)
- Endopterygota (endopterygotes)
- Coleoptera (beetles)
- Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles)
- Cucujiformia (Cucujiform Beetles)
- Coccinelloidea (Lady, Fungus, Scavenger, and Bark Beetles)
- Coccinellidae (ladybird beetles)
- Harmonia (Greater Lady Beetles)
- Harmonia axyridis (Multicolored asian ladybird beetle)
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