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Meet a best friend, a family of ladybirds

Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
in Wildlife gardening
What a great sight this little ladybird is. I spotted her/him/it on a cherry tree leaf, on other leaves I soon discovered her family. 


Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Lovely, I seem to be very short of them this year.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • CrazybeeladyCrazybeelady Posts: 778
    I've seen a whopping three! Plus one larva that I put in my aphid colony and have been watching - it's now going through "the change" and I'm waiting for it to emerge as an adult. Not a native red 2 or 7 spot unfortunately, I think it's a yellow one.
  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    Lovely!  Ladybirds seem very thin on the ground this year.  And I haven't seen one single larva yet.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Wonderful. May I borrow them?
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    rowlandscastle444 said:
    Wonderful. May I borrow them?
     :D Of course, but they've got to finish their chores first. 
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    I hadn't seen any this year until today but now my French beans are covered in ladybird larvae hoovering up the blackflies!
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    I've only seen a couple of adults this year but our hazelnut is absolutely crawling with larva at every size from just hatched to almost at the size they metamorphose.
    I think the fact that lots of trees have really suffered with aphids this year is why the larva are less visible at the moment.
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