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Hosts. — Soft bodied insects, such as plant lice, young scale insects, 

 other species of ladybird beetles, and they may even be cannibalistic. 

 The principal food consists of plant lice, chief of which are the melon 



B 



Pig. 189. — The common black-spotted red ladybird beetle (Hi\)podamia convergens 

 Guer.). A and E, adults; B, eggs; C, larva; D, pupa. (Essig, P. C. Jr. Ent.) 



aphis {Aphis gossijpii Glover), the pea louse {Macrosipkum destructor 

 Johns.), the bean aphis {Aphis rumicis Linn.) and the woolly aphis, 

 Eriosoma lanigera (Hausm.) 



