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earthling

Seven-spot ladybird

The most common of ladybirds in the UK – they’re widespread and found in all kinds of environments, including gardens, parks, grassland and coastal areas. A gardener’s best friend, they love to eat the aphids that can damage plants. Aptly named, these ladybirds have bright red wing cases dotted with seven black spots; they’re brightly coloured to warn predators that they taste bad.
Photograph: Jacky Parker

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#ladybirds

Their defences also extend to releasing a foul-smelling yellow substance from their joints when they’re handled. A red & black ladybird resting on yellow stamens of a pinkish white flower.
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Spaceways

28/09/2024 - Sunny morning walk from the house. Just me today. Some nice wild flowers by the roadside. Lots of pink-footed geese flying. A few swallows still about. Skylarks singing overhead. The sunshine felt good. It was a nice walk taken slow. Missed Mrs Spaceways being there to see the good stuff though.

Common Fumitory (I'm guessing common, not good with these) by the roadside. A scrambling plant with pink/purple flowers on the stone wall. Fields behind. Nice, not seen these before on this road.
A 7-spot ladybird on a nettle. There was a 2-spot ladybird on the same nettle just off camera (it was shy).
There was a good bit of Scentless Mayweed still in flower. It was nice to see the similar flower of Oxeye Daisy too. Photo of 3 white petal, yellow centre flowers of Oxeye Daisy.
Walking down the road. This one is a bit busy at times but once off this one, the rest of the country roads are quiet. It's sunny, fields either side. 6 miles in 5 hrs, I'm getting slower in my old age! I didn't like to rush.
#SunnyWalk#WildFlowers#Ladybirds
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Jon Sullivan

I visited the Ashley Dene research farm of #LincolnUniversityNZ on Thursday. Part of the farm is being used for trials on how to keep healthier dairy cows while reducing farm carbon emissions. That includes diverse pastures, scratching posts for the cows (very popular) and fenced off plots of natives and perennial fodder crops.

The highlight was the bamboo stakes in the plantings, all filled with over-wintering 11-spotted #ladybirds. 😄

inaturalist.nz/observations/22

A photo of three ladybirds, red with black spots, clustered into the tip of a narrow bamboo planter stake.
A photo of two ladybirds, red with black spots, clustered into the tip of a narrow bamboo planter stake.
A photo of one ladybird, red with black spots, clustered into the tip of a narrow bamboo planter stake.
A photo of ladybirds, red with black spots, clustered into the tips of two narrow bamboo planter stake.
#beetles#Coleoptera#insects
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