Abstract
Despite repeated efforts to establish the Palearctic coccinellid Coccinella septempunctata L. in the United States, no recoveries of this aphid predator were made until 1973 when a large population was found in the Hackensack Meadowlands, Bergen County, NJ. This was the first record of the establishment of C. septempunctata in this country. The predator is now found in New York and Connecticut as a result of natural dispersion, and has become established in Delaware, Georgia, and Oklahoma through recolonization. Since the species dominates all native coccinellids in the Meadowlands, it could become a useful addition to our beneficial insect fauna.
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