on wild buckwheat (Eriogonum)
I'm not 100% sure this is H. convergens, but that matches well with what I'm seeing shared locally by @watercolorist. Pronotum shape is wrong for Cocinella. Found on a Chinese juniper in my bonsai collection.
Very small. On Cusick's sunflower.
She was hunting in and around the garden's shed.
growing on north side of shed; to be removed