A swarm of the seven-spot ladybird Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) carried on a cruise ship

Title:

A swarm of the seven-spot ladybird Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) carried on a cruise ship

Creator:

Minchin, Dan

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:c2e5e1a0-f05f-44bf-8c3f-c7f6660079d6
uuid:c2e5e1a0-f05f-44bf-8c3f-c7f6660079d6

Subject:

Swarm, ship transport, Coccinella septempunctata, and invasion

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Several thousands of the seven-spot ladybird Coccinella septempunctata L., descended upon a cruise ship over several hours in daylight while in port in Morocco in April 2009. The ship had recently arrived from South America. Despite a treatment of fumigation beetles were found living after fourteen days following the inoculation event. This observation indicates an ocean transmission of large numbers of this species could take place and might have happened in the past.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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Source:

European Journal of Entomology | 2010 Volume:107 | Number:1

Harvested from:

CDK

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