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03-07-2011, 04:01 PM
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| | | unknwn bug on a cooking apple!
I've never seen anything quite like this, if there weren't two of them I'd have said it looks like a caterpillar swallowing a beetle.
i'd love to know what it is - Help please.  |
03-07-2011, 04:11 PM
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| | | Re: unknwn bug on a cooking apple!
Looks like a Harlequin Ladybird larva.
PS Welcome to WAB. 
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03-07-2011, 04:48 PM
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| | | Re: unknwn bug on a cooking apple!
Deb, thank you, looks like you got it in one. They're not in any of my id books nor is it easy to find on the web unless you know what you're looking for Great to be on board. One off my list!
Thank you again.
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03-07-2011, 05:02 PM
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| |  Re: unknwn bug on a cooking apple!
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Originally Posted by iainb  Deb, thank you, looks like you got it in one. They're not in any of my id books nor is it easy to find on the web unless you know what you're looking for Great to be on board. One off my list!
Thank you again.
Iain | Harlequins only first turned up in the UK in 2004 so aren't in a lot of the field guides. Amazing how quickly they have colonised! I was disappointed that the most recent Chinery Insects of UK + western Europe (2007) didn't include them + Rosemary Beetles as they are the sort of insect Joe Public notices + want to know what they are! |
03-07-2011, 05:13 PM
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| | | Re: unknwn bug on a cooking apple!
The Field Studies Council do an excellent pocket laminated guide with them on.
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04-07-2011, 06:45 AM
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| | | Re: unknwn bug on a cooking apple!
Hedera, thank you for the tip, I'll get myself one. | | |
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