Great photo! I've just looked at my recent entrant in the
Gallery...
17/06/2009
Seven-spotted... ...but look at the shoulders!!
This too seems to have the fourth pair of spots! This was surely another individual, photographed six days ago in the same habitat but a distance away. If the other seven-spotted was just bog-standard, does another with seemingly the same additional spots change or mean anything - or is it perfectly possible for several ladybirds in the same area to have the same form?