ADVENTIVE LADY BEETLES (COLEOPTERA, COCCINELLIDAE) IN EASTERN NOVA-SCOTIA, CANADA

Specimens in three small insect collections document the arrival of fo ur species of adventive lady beetles in Nova Scotia. All four have exp erienced dramatic range expansions in eastern North America in the pas t 25 years. Coccinella septempunctata arrived by 1984 and by the 1990' s was the most common coccinellid in disturbed habitats on Cape Breton Island, NS. The more recent arrivals in Nova Scotia of Propylea quatu ordecimpunctata (1990), Harmonia axyridis(1995) and Hippodamia variega ta (1996) are reported.