Posts Tagged: Natalia Vandenberg

Ladybugs in February

The overwintering ladybugs tucked in the leaves of our tangerine tree are gone.Sunny temperatures hit 75 degrees, and off they went. Guess they thought it was spring.Anyhow, they made a glorious sight as emerged from the folds of a tangerine leaf. One...

Ladybug in February

OVERWINTERING ladybug perches on top of a tangerine tree leaf as temperatures hit 75 degrees. This is an introduced species, Coccinella septempunctata, as identified by Natalia Vandenberg, a USDA employee with the Systematic Entomology Lab, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

'Crawl Space'

LADYBUG (Coccinella septempunctata) crawls down a tangerine leaf on a sunny day in February. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Back Up

LADYBUG (Coccinella septempunctata) crawls back up a leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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