Harlequin Ladybirds

[Rich]

At work today I was clearing some ivy and found a piece of old lino leaning against a tree. I moved the lino and it was full of them. This is after most had fallen to the ground.

[ladybirdluva]

oh by the way, i found a dead ladybird (a harlequin) on our living room light that appeared to have been parasitized by something, it had its legs in that "position" and it had stuff round it Should I report this?

Also saw a pine ladybird and some two-spots this year

[Paul mabbott]

Sorry, I missed this mail. Yes, all records of such predation are interesting. Do you have pictures/specimen?
As I've mentioned elsewhere you're as well off sending it to me since the national survey is going very slowly at the moment!

Originally Posted by ladybirdluva

oh by the way, i found a dead ladybird (a harlequin) on our living room light that appeared to have been parasitized by something, it had its legs in that "position" and it had stuff round it Should I report this?

Also saw a pine ladybird and some two-spots this year

[Paul mabbott]

I found a patch of H. axyridis pupae in Newcastle on Tyne at the weekend - the furthest north in England to date, I think. Will probably spread over the rest of the North this summer.

[mrs fish]

Saw alot of these this morning

Harlequin Larvae



Another larvae , is it a 2-spot ?


A pupa

Harlequin ?

[Dan Salter]

Pronotum, pronatum ?

Paul, i recently had to do a field study for my degree of which i chose british ladybirds...i then also had to do some individual species idents using keys, some of which were inverts.....
I noticed when writing my ladybird study that much literature calls the forebody on ladybirds the pronOtum....while when doing my insect ident much of the keys and literature call that part on other insects the pronAtum?

Whats the story....?

[Paul mabbott]

They're all Harmonia axyridis 0 th 'harlequin'!

Originally Posted by mrs fish

Saw alot of these this morning

Harlequin Larvae



Another larvae , is it a 2-spot ?


A pupa

Harlequin ?

[Paul mabbott]

I've never seen the word 'pronatum' until now but it does sem to be a synonym. I've always used 'pronotum' and have only seen that in the books/keys that I read. Also, of course, 'prothorax' is sometimes used although that refers to the whole forebody section whereas 'pronotum' strictly refers only to the dorsal surface of the forebody.

I've been looking around and the pronatum terminology seems to be mainly USAmerican and/or confined to orthopterans and some other insects which habe more than one plate (shield) on their forebody: the whole kebab is called the notal or pronotal shield but the first one is the pronatal plate .... clear? Neither am I!

Originally Posted by Dan Salter

Pronotum, pronatum ?

Paul, i recently had to do a field study for my degree of which i chose british ladybirds...i then also had to do some individual species idents using keys, some of which were inverts.....
I noticed when writing my ladybird study that much literature calls the forebody on ladybirds the pronOtum....while when doing my insect ident much of the keys and literature call that part on other insects the pronAtum?

Whats the story....?

[mrs fish]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

They're all Harmonia axyridis 0 th 'harlequin'!

Oh

[nutmeg]

There are many Harlequin larvae in my Lincolnshire garden at the moment They seem to have appeared slightly later than some of the natives - and I've caught them eating pupae (and larvae):