INTERESTING INSECTS
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Hadda beetle - Epilachna vigintioctopunctata
Added: 01 Sep 2016
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This adventive plant eating ladybird is from South East Asia. It has spread to Australia and South America. In January 2010, I found a hadda beetle in an Auckland Park overlooking the port. A specimen had been collected ...
Large spotted ladybird - Harmonia conformis
Added: 22 Sep 2016
Updated: 24 Oct 2019
This distinctive adventive ladybird is from Australia and was first released into New Zealand in 1896. It is found in Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Coromandel, Waikato and Whanganui in the North Island. It is found...
Dusky lady beetle - Nephus binaevatus
Added: 23 Aug 2017
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird was first found in New Zealand in Mount Albert, Auckland in sometime after 2000. It has since been found in Avondale. In Mount Albert it is associated with mealybugs on flax, Phormium plants. It o...
Loew's ladybird - Scymnus loewii
Added: 04 Apr 2019
Updated: 08 Apr 2019
This adventive ladybird comes from North and Central America and was first found in New Zealand in 1941 in Auckland. This small two toned ladybird present in the North Island of New Zealand. Conservation status: This lad...
Southern Ladybird - Cleobora mellyi
Added: 24 Nov 2016
Updated: 24 Oct 2019
This adventive ladybird comes from Tasmania and southern areas of mainland Australia, hence its common names. Adults and larvae live in trees feeding on soft-bodied insects and their eggs. It was released into New Zealan...
Diomus mealybug ladybird - Diomus sp. nr subclarus
Added: 30 Nov 2016
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird was first found about 2005 by Stephen Thorpe in Devonport, Auckland. It has been found feeding on endemic and adventive species of mealybugs. Conservation status: This adventive ladybird is establ...
Native mealybug ladybird - Rhyzobius sp. 1
Added: 28 Nov 2016
Updated: 26 Nov 2018
This small unnamed endemic ladybird has only been found in regenerating coastal native forest by the Manukau Harbour and Auckland's West Coast. It feeds on mealybugs, notably the long-fringed Astelia mealybug, Rastrococc...
Harlequin ladybird - Harmonia axyridis
Added: 07 Nov 2016
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird of variable appearance was first found in 2016 in Auckland. Its native range is Central and Eastern Asia, but it was deliberately released into USA, Europe, South America and Middle East and has s...
Cardinal ladybird - Rodolia cardinalis
Added: 21 Nov 2016
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
This Australian ladybird is found in the North Island and Nelson in the South Island of New Zealand. It is an important predator of cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi Maskell, 1879 (Hemiptera: Monophlebidae) that was...
Yellow haired ladybird - Adoxellus flavihirtus
Added: 17 Oct 2016
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This endemic ladybird is found in the North and South) Islands of New Zealand. Adults and larvae feed on small insects. Conservation status: This native ladybird is widespread, but not commonly caught.
Karo felted scale ladybird - Rhyzobius acceptus
Added: 13 Oct 2016
Updated: 26 Nov 2018
Karo felted scale ladybird is an endemic species. It is associated with native forest, but little is known about its distribution and habits. It has only been found feeding on one insect, a species of felted scale (Hemip...
Citrus whitefly ladybird - Serangium maculigerum
Added: 17 Jan 2013
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird comes from Australia and was first found in New Zealand by Stephen Thorpe in Auckland Domain in 2005. It is present in Northland and Auckland, and spreading south. It feeds on several kinds of ins...
Koebele's ladybird - Rodolia koebelei
Added: 17 Nov 2016
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
This Australian ladybird is found in the North Island of New Zealand. It was first recognised in New Zealand by Peter Maddison in 2003 when he found it in Mangere, Auckland. The earliest known specimen was from a bait tr...
Variable ladybird - Coelophora inaequalis
Added: 08 Sep 2016
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This distinctive adventive ladybird from Australia, Pacific Islands and South East Asia was first found in Auckland in 1966. It has been found on Little Barrier Island and is common in the Auckland Region where it can be...
Forestier's ladybird - Rhyzobius forestieri
Added: 16 Nov 2016
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird from Australia is found in the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It was released into New Zealand in 1889 to help control scale insects. It has been released in many other countries for the ...
Gumtree scale ladybird - Rhyzobius ventralis
Added: 16 Nov 2016
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird from Australia is found in the North Island, and Canterbury and Nelson in the South Island of New Zealand. In 1898 it was deliberately released into New Zealand to control its primary prey, the gu...
Yellow shouldered ladybird - Apolinus lividigaster
Added: 28 Sep 2016
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This distinctive adventive ladybird is from Australia and was first found in Auckland in 1961. There are two subspecies, Apolinus lividigaster wallacii (Crotch) and Apolinus lividigaster lividigaster (Mulsant). Only the ...
Mealybug ladybird - Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
Added: 19 Oct 2016
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird was deliberately imported from Australia and released into New Zealand several times from 1897 to 1924 to control mealybugs. It is mainly found in Auckland and Northland as it does not persist in ...
Scale-eating ladybird - Rhyzobius fagus
Added: 03 Feb 2016
Updated: 31 Oct 2018
Until recently the Scale-eating ladybird, Rhyzobius fagus was believed to be found only in New Zealand, but a recent taxonomic revision means that the species is also present in Australia and New Caledonia and is therefo...
Two-spotted ladybird - Adalia bipunctata
Added: 07 Sep 2016
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
The two-spotted ladybird is an adventive species from Europe. It was first found in New Zealand in Christchurch during March 1936. It is now found throughout New Zealand though it is uncommon in Auckland. It is found in ...
Steelblue ladybird - Halmus chalybeus
Added: 10 Dec 2012
Updated: 29 Oct 2018
This adventive ladybird from Australia was first released in New Zealand in 1899. It is now the most common ladybird in Auckland, widespread in the North Island and present in the North of the South Island. It is found o...
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