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The trouble is it looks like a harlequin ladybird and they are responsible for the decline of our native ladybirds, specially the two spot ladybird. Still as you say they are certainly aphid exterminators.
Unfortunately it is a Harlequin – I see them a lot more than I do the natives now! It certainly does the job with the aphids though.
It’s sad that you see more of them than our natives. I now know what to look out for. Thank you!
I live in the Pacific NW of the US. What is the insect in the lower picture? I don’t recognize it. I think our ladybugs have fewer spots–6? Does that make them native?
It is the larvae of the Ladybird in the above picture – which is a Harlequin ladybird. They are not native to our country originally from Asia. Great for aphids but they have had a negative affect on our natives numbers.