A nice Xmas Eve mooch, specifically for Micros in a well recorded Macro area in mid Shropshire, finding Rhyzobius chrysomeloides (Arboreal LB), Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly LB) with 10-spot LB, and plenty of Scymnus interruptus (Red-flanked LB) amongst others! #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

look at these lovely ladies i found in the tillamook forest once!

Our neighbor for this week is 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢, commonly known as the six-spotted zigzag ladybird (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). A highly common and ecologically beneficial beetle, it is found across the city's gardens, agricultural fields, and urban parks.

Today’s mooch in poorly recorded monads in north Shropshire produced Nephus quadrimaculatus (Ivy LB), Coccidula rufa (Red Marsh LB), Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly LB) and Scymnus haemorrhoidalis (Red-rumped LB) amongst others! #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

Tapped four Arboreal Ladybirds (Rhyzobius chrysomeloides) out of a Euonymus shrub in my Waltham Abbey garden this morning. #EssexWildlife #UKLadybirds

Oh, just a couple cute little ladybugs with blue eyes 🥰 #Coccinellidae: #Hyperaspsis bigeminata North Carolina, USA

Another good mooch this afternoon in the Shrewsbury area, finding Rhyzobius chrysomeloides (Arboreal LB), Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly LB), a nicely marked Adalia decempunctata (10-spot LB) and Hippodamia variegata (Adonis LB), amongst others #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

A few finds from sieving leaf litter today. A 10 Spot Ladybird, a Brassica Shieldbug and some 16 Spot Ladybirds. I also found some groundbugs that are waiting for identification.

Some of today’s records of #insects from Morningside Cemetery, #Edinburgh, part 1: Orange & Harlequin Ladybirds, Phloiophilus edwardsii … #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

A dozen Seven-spot ladybirds overwintering under a Bramble leaf in Cambridge. #WildWebsWednesday 📷 #photograpy

One Pine & three Larch Ladybirds, tapped from a fallen fir tree branch in Colstey Wood, Shrops, last Wednesday. Didn't find a single one in the actual trees!

A pleasant December day in SE Shropshire, finding Hippodamia variegata (Adonis Ladybird), Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly Ladybird), Nephus redtenbacheri (Red-patched Ladybird) and Scymnus interruptus (Red-flanked Ladybird), amongst others! #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

So many Bristly Ladybirds, Rhyzobius lophanthae, overwintering in evergreens in #VC55 this year. Seems to have been an explosion in numbers - weather? #Beetles #Coleoptera

14 Spot Ladybird, Propylea quattuordecimpunctata. #Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem

A nice mooch this pm in Telford area, finding Myrrha 18-guttata (18-spot LB), Anatis ocellata (Eyed LB) with Harmonia 4-punctata (Cream-streaked LB) & Rhyzobius chrysomeloides (Arboreal LB), and 49 wks after my 1st, got my 2nd Rhyzobius forestieri (Forestier’s LB) #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

Rinsed out of a bunch of chard, a Harlequin Ladybird. Re-homed into a bush in the garden. Please keep a look out for hibernating creatures when washing your veg.

Tapped an Arboreal Ladybird (Rhyzobius chrysomeloides) out of a pine tree in Starcross, South Devon yesterday. A new 10km square record. Probably under recorded in the area. #DevonWildlife #UKLadybirds

7-spot Ladybirds congregate and shelter on Yew. #WildWebsWednesday

#Coccinellidae zum #HexapoDezember: * Calvia decemguttata (Licht-Marienkäfer) * Coccinula quatuordecimpustulata (Trockenrasen-Marienkäfer) * Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (Vierzehnpunktmarienkäfer) * Sospita vigintiguttata (Schöner Marienkäfer)

Also from today’s dull and soggy mooch, Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly LB), Scymnus suturalis (Conifer LB), Nephus quadrimaculatus (Ivy LB) and Hippodamia variegata (Adonis LB), amongst others #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

A very dull and soggy mooch in NW Shrops today, finding several Anisosticta 19-punctata (Water LB) incl. still quite colourful ones! Coccidula rufa (Red Marsh LB) and Scymnus haemorrhoidalis (Red-rumped LB) #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

Didn’t get out this week, so from the archives, as it is now in the UK, a couple of Calvia decemguttata (White-spot Ladybird) larvae from France a few years ago. #Coccinellidae #Ladybird #France

Unnoticed when taking this photo, but 2 ladybirds have decided to overwinter inside this hollyhock flower 🐞🐞 #InsectThursday #Hibernation #Diapause #Ladybirds #Ladybugs #Hollyhock

A new Ladybird species for me this morning. Adonis Ladybird (Hippodamia variegata) found hibernating in some dried beans from the allotment that were being podded. #bugsky #insects #ladybirds #allotment #beetles

#wwbic #recordoftheweek #cofnodyrwythnos is Halyzia sedecimguttata, the Orange Ladybird recorsed in Aberystwyth, by James Ashford 📸 Thank you for your records submitted on the #lercwalesapp #winterwatch #LERCWalesApp #wildwatch #gwyliogwyllt

Seven Pine Ladybirds extracted from Larch and Douglas Fir during yesterday's wildlife group trip to Bicton, Shrewsbury. This was just one trayful - the trees were full of them.

After only finding a couple of 2 spot Ladybirds (Adalia bipunctata) all year it was a pleasant surprise to find one hibernating indoors (got disturbed but soon found a place to settle down). @rockwolf74.bsky.social

Nice variety of ladybirds at St Mary’s church in Morpeth, #Northumberland this afternoon. Not huge numbers, but 6 species and my first Eyed Ladybird here for a couple of years. All in all, 1x 2-spot, 6x 7-spot, 2x Cream Spot, 5x Harlequin, 39x Orange, 1x Eyed. #NELadybirdSpot

Well, Hello *halyzia sedecimguttata* So glad you didn’t fly away home, but stayed with us while we drank coffee, al fresco 🫶 I’d never met one of your kind before and you were most delightful 🧡 #macroMonday #beetles #minibugs #somethingnew #minibeasts

Three of four Scymnus haemorrhoidalis (Red-rumped Ladybird) seen in NW Shropshire today! #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

Tapped a Conifer Ladybird (Scymnus suturalis) out of a pine tree in Upshire, Essex today. #UKLadybirds #EssexWildlife

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 21 was just a travelling day so just a few photos of other stuff some other insects 2/3

Arawana scapularis, a lady beetle species native to the SW US. Very few records exist for this species which shocked me since I found dozens on sycamore trees in the heart of Santa Fe, NM. Just happened to catch them as I walked by. It's why I always have my camera on me! #coccinellidae #inverts

A Red-rumped Ladybird, Scymnus haemorrhoidalis, vacuumed from Polytrichum moss whilst looking for Snow Fleas last Weds. One of the commoner micro ladybirds but it seems to vanish at some points in the year & then reappear in winter, when we start to find it again.

Bristly Ladybird, Rhyzobius lophanthae. Pencil for scale. #Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem

It was good to find Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly Ladybird) yesterday, in its typical habitat (!!), from grasses at the base of a Salix, next to a pond! 😂 With the rather more typical 16-spot #AlwaysExpectTheUnexpected #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

It’s not often that I find a slightly different 7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata), so it was good to see one today with very reduced central spots! #VC40Ladybirds

Harlequin Ladybird, Harmonia axyridis, infected with the parasitic fungus Hesperomyces harmoniae. 2nd Norfolk record, by @vannabartlett.bsky.social, 25 Nov. (1st record was by @caspers-corpse.bsky.social, 19 Nov). Both records from Earlham Cemetery, Norwich, #Fungi #FungiFriends #Ladybirds

It has taken over two years for @vc40ladybirds.bsky.social & I to attract another Willow Ladybird (Scymnus limbatus), an extremely small & elusive species, to the refugia we designed in an attempt to learn more about them. It has been a long wait but we found one yesterday, plus an Anthocorid bug

After a two year hiatus, @vc40orthops.bsky.social and I were really pleased to finally find another Willow Ladybird (Scymnus limbatus) using our refugia yesterday. 🥰 New for my #LadybirdYearList #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

More from today’s mooch in east Shropshire! Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly Ladybird), R. chrysomeloides (Arboreal Ladybird) with R. litura (Meadow Ladybird), Nephus quadrimaculatus (Ivy Ladybird) and Scymnus interruptus (Red-flanked Ladybird), amongst others! #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

A good mooch in east Shropshire today, finding Myrrha 18-guttata (18-spot Ladybird), Coccidula rufa (Red Marsh Ladybird), Anatis ocellata (Eyed Ladybird) and Hippodamia variegata (Adonis Ladybird) #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

A chilly but gloriously sunny mooch this pm in Shropshire, finding lots of Nephus quadrimaculatus (Ivy LB) with a Harley, Scymnus interruptus (Red-flanked LB), Rhyzobius lophanthae (Bristly LB) and most pleased to find Coccidula scutellata (Spotted Marsh LB) #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird

#LiteratureNotice Duarte-de-Mélo et al. A new species of #Zenoria Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae), with a key to similar two-spotted hairy lady beetles from South America doi.org/10.12976/jib... #Beetle #Beetles

Marienkäferarten kommen oft in verschiedenen Farbmorphen vor. Die dunkle Form des Nadelbaum-Marienkäfers (Aphidecta obliterata) kannte ich noch nicht. Bild 4 zeigt die "Normalfärbung". #artenvielfalt #nature #natur #insekten #insects #Käfer #coleoptera #beetle #beetles #marienkäfer #Coccinellidae

Ladybug beetles (Coccinellidae) in Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park, California.

Lady beetles can have anywhere from zero to fifteen spots depending on the species. Those spots are actually on their hardened wing covers called elytra. #Nature #Photography #MacroPhotography #Insects #MacroMonday

Hibernating HARLEQUIN LADYBIRDS (Harmonia axyridis) at Long Melford in Suffolk. This cluster really shows off the amazing variety of colours and patterns (and size) shown by this species.

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A lovely Nephus redtenbacheri (Red-patched Ladybird) from lunchtime today. Been a while since I last saw one! #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird