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28-06-2010, 07:12 PM
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| | | Insect id please
Can anybody id this insect please? I've scoured the web but no luck so far.
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28-06-2010, 07:16 PM
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| | | Re: Insect id please
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Originally Posted by jellybenny  Can anybody id this insect please? I've scoured the web but no luck so far.
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28-06-2010, 07:46 PM
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| | | Re: Insect id please
Oh yeah!
Here it is.  |
28-06-2010, 07:48 PM
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| | | Re: Insect id please
It's a ladybird larva - I think Harlequin.
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28-06-2010, 07:51 PM
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| | | Re: Insect id please
Agree on it being a Ladybird Larva,but I'd say it was a Seven-spot Ladybird. |
28-06-2010, 08:11 PM
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| | | Re: Insect id please
Evening J ( a lot of us about!), and welcome to WAB!
It's as said - a Seven-spot Ladybird larvae, and perhaps just pre-pupation from the position it's in.
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28-06-2010, 08:16 PM
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| | | Re: Insect id please
Great! Just Wikipedia'd Seven Spot Ladybird and spot on! Sorry about the pun! It is the larvae.
Can it destroy box hedges or is it coincidental that the hedge is covered with them and dying?
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28-06-2010, 08:25 PM
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| | | Re: Insect id please
Co-incidental.
They eat aphids (making them a 'gardeners friend'), and are in no way a pest species. Very beneficial to have around. | | |
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