From carpet beetles to ladybugs to palo verde beetles, here's what to know about the most common beetles in Arizona and why ...

Also, a word of warning: You may be tempted to buy ladybugs, which some garden centers sell in bags, but Black says this is a ...

One of the best ways to do this is to attract ladybugs to your yard. Ladybugs, or lady beetles (Hippodamia convergens) are ...

Lady beetles sold commercially in California are convergent lady beetles, Hippodamia convergens. They are named for the converging white lines on their thorax. Suppliers collect the lady beetles from ...

From them crawl fully formed baby salamanders, each about the size of a pea. So much depends on a lady beetle’s footprint. It holds a hydrocarbon compound that convergent lady beetles (Hippodamia ...

Up in the mountains south of the town of Tehachapi is a little opening in the forest where tens of thousands of ladybugs gather each year to overwinter in dense clusters of orange and black beetles.

The species of Convergent Lady Beetle (Hippodamia convergens) is actually wild collected from sites in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California and there has been a moratorium on collecting to the ...

The most common ladybug in Oregon, the Convergent Lady Beetle, is one that can be toxic, but only if ingested. When threatened, lady bugs can also release a yellow, bitter-tasting liquid that can ...

Although we have about 450 varieties in North America, the one most of us have seen and are familiar with is the convergent lady beetle, aka Hippodamia convergens Guérin-Méneville. That’s ...

It feeds on lots of pests like European corn borer, corn earworm, imported cabbageworm, fall webworm and Colorado potato beetle. It also needs to eat pollen. Flowering plants, including dandelions, ...

It feeds on lots of pests like European corn borer, corn earworm, imported cabbageworm, fall webworm and Colorado potato beetle. It also needs to eat pollen. Flowering plants, including dandelions, ...

Should you purchase ladybugs? Personally, I am not a fan of buying them. NDSU Extension shares that the “most commonly sold lady beetle is the convergent lady beetle.” This particular species will eat ...