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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott  Did my monthly walk around London (  ) yesterday. Of the 'adults' (imagines) most that I saw were 2-spots - somewhat different from last year when I thought they had gone extinct! Saw some 10-spots, a solitary 7-spot and ditto pine ladybird ... otherwise just 'harlequins'. Would have expected to see some other species - cream-spots, orange ladybirds &c? Far fewer imagines than a month ago - most, especially the H. axyridis, were larvae/pupae .....
It was probably a male that hadn't been well-fed! |
Last week I was away, but before I went off I had a couple of sites around London which were heaving with Harlequins, but on my return very few to be seen, though found a few larvae + adults yesterday.