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Killer in action
Flora rosa
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Check out this (wonderful) monster in action! I really hope you can see, cameras a bit poor, or perhaps it's the photographer! Nature in action
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Oh no, can't really see it ! Spotted a humongous load of greenfly on my camellia, soI brought a ladybird larvae up from the plants in the sunken patio, within ten minutes - all scoffed
They've hoovered up the greenfly on my roses
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Is that big hairy caterpillar after something green on the stem lower down?
Haha, just like little hand held hoovers ..... It was moving around, as if to say how very dare you move me and the all of a sudden realised i'd put on a gourmet meal for him, and boo'm straight to em!
Wow love it
I know, the photographer's rubbish ! Ladybird larvae after a five course meal
excuse the broom, full tummy
I hope that isn't one of those foreign ones which are steadily invading our English shores
Nature doing it's bit - problems is some people don't know what ladybird larvae look like and mistake it for a beastie...I was in that gang until some kind poster, many moons ago put me in the know...now even more people know having seen your pic...
Here's a rather larger version of your hungry monster and two of the ones you don't want it to turn into
They're a bit small but I took 'em straight off my village website to save trawling through my files
DorsetUK - I'm given to understand there a quite a few different British ladybirds..do all Ladybird larvae look the same...