All year so far I have hardly seen any Harlequins and then recently in the last week or so there has been a sharp increase in them. Whereas, round here it has been an excellent year for native Ladybirds with huge numbers of Seven-spots in particular.
It's interesting how only now the Harlequins are coming out in any numbers. I can only guess (and hope!
) that the harsh winter we had knocked them back somewhat.
Anyone else noticed this?