Lots of 7 spot ladybirds around at the moment including bramble leaves hosting 3! All surrounding a 14 spot
#InsectThursday #Ladybirds from 3 counties from the last week, #Lancashire, #NorthYorkshire & #SouthCumbria, lots of 7 spots and a lovely 14 spot Cumbrian one from yesterday. #pollinators
A 7 spot ladybird, two small tortoiseshell (underwing on the left) and peacock bottom right
#InsectThursday with blackthorn fans from the last week, #ladybirds, #butterflies including small tortoiseshell & peacock. Thank goodness it weathered last weekends storm! @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #SouthCumbria #vitaminN
A photograph of two seven spot ladybirds on some grass. These two were trying to get some privacy but I ignored that and took this photo. They are largish, round beetles. They have black heads and thoraxes with white spots, very deep red bodies with seven black dots and two white patches at the top of their wing cases. Here, one is on top of the other as it is that time of year! They are on some brown grass with green grass all round them. I took a photo then let them get on with it. Coccinella septempunctata
A photograph of another ladybird. This one is teeny and a bit fuzzy. It is also one of the few ladybirds that prefers leaves to aphids. It is all red with about 24 spots. Here it is climbing around a leaf, trying to get away from the camera. It may be teeny but it has a big name! Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata. I dare you to say that ten times fast!
A photograph of a peacock! Ok, not the bird but the butterfly. This is a very colourful butterfly, with reds, whites, blues and blacks. It has four ‘eyes’, one on each wing. It is resting on some dead vegetation, getting a bit of sun. Aglais io.
Some invertebrates from this week. First off, 7 spots, a 24 spot and a peacock butterfly
London, 6 April
Descriptions and info in alt
#Invertebrates #Macrophotography #RedWed #ColorADay #Ladybirds #Butterflies
Ladybirds are emerging all over the garden & I couldn't resist putting these together in honour of our spotty little aphid controllers ❤️ www.ebay.co.uk/itm/19826277...
Happy midweek xx
#handmadeUK #Ladybirds #handmadeearrings
A red ladybird with 7 black spots on a cluster of small green buds with 2 textured leaves on either side; set against a lightly blurred background of mainly greens and brown
A 7-spot ladybird on the tightly packed green buds of an unopened flowerhead of the Wayfaring Tree, Viburnum lantana; set against a lightly blurred background
#WildWebsWednesday #InsectThursday #Ladybirds #Ladybugs #Trees #TreeFlowers #TreeClub
Two 7-spot ladybirds and one much smaller 14-spot ladybird together on a Nettle leaf
Little and large! Two 7-spot and one 14-spot gathered together on a Nettle leaf. #Ladybirds #WildWebsWednesday
Can’t resist stopping to watch a ladybird in the sunshine. Lots around on yesterdays walk #ladybirds #wildwebswednesday
Cream-spot Ladybirds.
10-spot Ladybirds.
2-spot Ladybirds.
Harlequin Ladybirds.
Collection of mating ladybirds from yesterday’s visit to Grange Cemetery, #Edinburgh. Lots of aphids under sycamore trees. #ladybirds #spring #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.
Two 7-spot ladybirds on top of a dried leaf and another visible underneath (with more snuggled inside the fold of the leaf)
A 7-spot ladybird balancing on the tip of a twig
A bonanza of 7-spot ladybirds in the garden this afternoon, two on top of a dried-up lychnis leaf and another six snuggled up together inside 🥰
#Edinburgh #ladybirds
14-spot Ladybird, which landed on me while I drank my coffee in the garden this morning. Most examples are brighter yellow than this. The second photo shows my thumb for scale: it is a tiny species. #ladybirds
A photograph of two seven spot ladybirds, well, making more seven spot ladybirds. These are fairly large ladybirds with red bodies with black spots and two white spots by the thorax. A black head and thorax with a few white spots. Very pretty ladybirds and loads here. We counted to 35 and gave up. Coccinella septempunctata.
A photograph of a bee. It is sunning itself on cow parsley. It’s gots a fuzzy, orangish thorax with a black with white stripes abdomen. It’s an Andrena species, possibly Andrena nitida.
A photograph of another Andrena sp bee. Not sure which one. There were quite a few of these very little bees buzzing about. Its thorax is deep brown and bare with some yellow hairs on the side. Its abdomen is also brown, with white stripes. It’s also sunning itself on some cow parsley.
A photograph of an absolute stunner of a hoverfly. This is a rather chonky beast, with a bronze-brown thorax and a yellow and black striped abdomen. It is outlined with small golden hairs, which makes it glitter in the sun. Very blingy. It is sunning itself on a cow parsley leaf (those plants were very very popular!) Epistrophe eligans.
Some invertebrates from this week - so great to see more coming out of their slumber 😍
Using the TG-7 and still learning. But a great little camera to take out when I can’t be bothered with the ‘proper’ camera
IDs & descriptions in alt.
#Invertebrates #LondonWildlife #Ladybirds #Bees #Hoverflies
📢 Reconstructing Coccinellini Phylogeny
A new study by W. Tomaszewska (MIZ PAS) & colleagues uncovers a time-calibrated phylogeny of 200+ “true ladybird” species, revealing boreotropical origin, multiple migrations & shifts in diet 🐞🧬
🔗 shorturl.at/8TxNH
📷 G. San Martin
#ladybirds #evolution #diet
Brindled Pug.
Male Early Reveller (Diurnea fagella).
Eyed Ladybird.
Buchananiella continua.
Some of yesterday’s records from Grange Cemetery, #Edinburgh: Brindled Pug, male Early Reveller (Diurnea fagella), Eyed Ladybird & Buchananiella continua. #moths #ladybirds #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.
Found a lovely Ladybird on the window inside of the house.
Took it outside to do its work. 🤩
#Love #Peace
#Nature #ukGarden #Ladybirds #MacroMonday #BlueSky #NaturalArt #art
#EssentialInsects
🦟 Bush full of Flies & Didymodons 🌱
Welcome to the spring everyone🌸 🌼 🌷🌱🦋 🌞
Sightings part 2 - #flies, #hoverflies, #birds, #butterflies, #ladybirds, mosses & more...
Let me know what you have spotted.
#Insects #Moss #Bees #NaturalHistory #Bugs #NatureWriting
#SpringSightings
Ladybird on newly emerged green alklet in the library gardens. Another Tourettes walk find!
#nature #wildflowers #ladybirds #photography #tourettes
Insects and Flowers.
#Nature #Garden #Butterflies #Bees #Ladybirds #Wasps #Mint #Moths#EssentialInsects #OldPhotos
#Summer #Seasons #ColoursOfNature #NaturalArt #Art
9 ladybirds on recently removed doorframe
Another view of 9 ladybirds on recently removed doorframe
So will have to do something else for the next hour or so! What occasionally happens when stripping out a fairly old building. #ladybirds #Coccinellidae
📣 paper alert 😀
Our study on the evolutionary history of true #ladybirds 🐞 #Coccinellini is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! #OA
Another great collab with @isyeb.mnhn.fr and other colleagues!
@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social / @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A close-up of two red ladybirds next to each other inside a small cup-shaped structure of a lime-green coloured plant
A close-up of a many spotted ladybird on the edge of a cup-shaped structure of a lime-green coloured plant, with a softly blurred background of muted greens and browns
Room for two? 🐞🐞
Two 7-spot Ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata) sharing a cup-like bract and an Eyed-Ladybird (Anatis ocellata) is 'going it alone'🐞 on a Euphorbia; seen on a sunny day as shown by the shadows
#Ladybirds #Ladybugs #WildWebsWednesday #InsectThursday
Hieroglyphic Ladybird.
Trypodendron domesticum.
Female Dotted Border.
Records from Wiston Churchyard, Lanarkshire, visited on 21 March (1/2). Highlights: Hieroglyphic Ladybird & Trypodendron domesticum. Some other decent records too, including female Dotted Border … #ladybirds #beetles #moths
#CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.
Kissing cousins or lunch, seven and twenty two spot ladybirds, the twenty two spot only eats fungus like the mildew on leaves, they both went their own way in the end #Ladybirds #Nature #Insects
A few #ladybirds from a wander around @nenature.bsky.social #GosforthNatureReserve today. Particularly happy with the Eyed Ladybird, which brings my site total to 14 species 🐞
