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ozwildlife Active Member Registered: January 2008 Posts: 75	A couple of hours later, both ladybirds are black. The first one to emerge is now running around. Not a great photo, but at least I know now what happened to the yellow ladybirds I've been seeing around.
	· Date: Wed 30, January 2008 · Views: 337 · Filesize: 33.9kb · Dimensions: 800 x 565 ·
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	Keywords: Yellow Shouldered Ladybird Apolinus lividigaster
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paul m

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Wed 30, January 2008 3:13pm

Nice sequence. We live and learn from observations. Interesting that, as with most ladybirds, that the forebody (pronotum, prothorax) already has developed patterns when it emerges - it's only the hindbody (elytra) that take time to mature. In most species pattern development is 4-24 hours but it can be days or months in some species.

Good stuff!

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