NEW
This
whole web-site is very much under construction (except, perhaps,
for the main ladybird pages): new pictures, notes and pages are
added regularly. This page will list major additions for the current month (or
two ....).
Sign the RSPB
petition for urgent action on climate change!
Added since 1/1/06
North of England Ladybird Surveys
Hieroglyphic ladybirds
More 2-spot ladybird variations
Added since 1/12/05
Late fall of leaves - Chiswick and
elsewhere
Greece 2005
Added since 10/9/05
Recent emergence of large numbers of Harmonia axyridis in
London; shield bugs page;
walks with a natural slant;
Orphans page of
unidentified insects;
Re-working of the
reproduction and life history pages (29/9
the old pages not yet deleted and it may be some time before internal links are
corrected!);
A rogues gallery of Harmonia axyridis
variants in London.
Amended since 15/4/05
More photographs and comments re common NW European and native ladybird species.
Amended since 1/3/05
New Links and removal of many dead ones (and about time too....)
Added since 15/11/04
Harrow ladybirds - a summary of records provided by the Harrow Natural History Society
Amended since 20/10/04
Harmonia axyridis - photos
of larvae and pupae and other information. Distribution maps.
This page will be regularly up-dated and not mentioned here again!
Added since 8/10/04
Harmonia axyridis in England
Added since 11/9/04
More European species (Oenopia
conglobata, Calvia decemguttata)
Scarce 7-spot (Coccinella magnifica)
More variants
Mediterranean plants and their fauna:
oleander and olive
Added
since 11/9/02
Added since 28/7/02
Ladybird death and
disease
(under construction) including cannibalism
Ladybird deformities
Pictures
of 18-spot ladybird
More
pictures of ladybird life phases and of immature ladybirds
White bryony - host plant of the Bryony
ladybird
Horse Chestnut scale - Pulvinaria
Water ladybird and new
pictures
of other species
Added or seriously amended since 2/6/02
More 2-/10-spot variant pictures
More ground beetle pictures
Added or seriously amended since 5/4/02
Hemiptera
(BUGS) - new page - under construction
FEEDING (of ladybirds) - new page
SIZE
(of ladybirds) - new note
Other beetles - new pictures including the
carpet beetle!
Ground beetles - new pictures including Carabus
nemoralis
Acknowledgments of contributors to the Ladybird
surveys - THANKS
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