ADW: ladybird-pupation-colorchange

Identification

Harmonia axyridis

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Date Taken

17 October 2007

Location

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Caption

Assembled from the individual images taken on one day, this montage shows how a lady beetle pupa changes color in the first few hours of pupation.

Contributors

Patricia Jones (photographer; copyright holder), Animal Diversity Web

George Hammond (identification), Animal Diversity Web Staff

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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