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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott  We've not had much correspondence on this topic recently (people getting bored?  ) but I have yet to see a living Harmonia axyridis this year. Haven't seen that many ladybirds at all .... mostly larvae at present so I suspect that their life cycle is just delayed after the cold winter. |
Having spotted a native ladybird today whilst gardening, it made me wonder whether this very cold winter will have had an effect on the Harlequin ladybird population. I read on one of the threads on here that it was thought that the Harlequin ladybird might not be very good at surviving cold winters, why they did not appear in big numbers until autumn. I've got a squashed Harlequin in one of my window frames, but I think it has been there sometime. Not seen any others here since autumn.