        National Geographic Photo of the Day: Ladybug on a Leaf

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Yosemite National Park, California, 1978 Photograph by Joseph H. Bailey
A ladybug walks along a wild lupine leaf in California&#039s Yosemite
National Park. These colorful plants were brought to North America from
the Mediterranean as ornamental flora and quickly spread into the wild.
The Yosemite varieties usually flower blue and white and grow
abundantly in the park&#039s sandy soil.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National
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