Camera/I couldn't get a good focus.
Cute little fella aint he! Absolutely made up to have seen one atlast. Lots of aphids he'll be munching..hurrah!
Wow ive learned something new.
I will be on the lookout ;D
Great pics Heldi :)
see one?!?!?
i am prtactically running the nursery for the whole south east of england on my broad beans at the minute.
i am not complaining, just stating facts though ;)
That's never a ladybird, Helds ??? Thought they were roundish red things with black spots, like on the cover of the Ladybird books. Was expecting to see one of those, only smaller, like.........you sure that's a babby ladybird or are you lot all having me on ;D
IT's definitely a ladybird larva.
I only know what one looks like because I bought a book in a charity shop about them for my son. It's a canny book and goes through the life cycle of the ladybird. I particularly like it because the pictures of the kids and people in it are soooooo 70's...blimey my mother dressed me like that!
Svea I think you are dead lucky! I had never seen one. I hope this means they like my garden and will stick around!
I have tried to mix native plants in with the more exotic types and I hope this will help attract lots of wildlife.
For a quick example...I have ragged robin peeping through the base of a golden bamboo. Looks great...to me anyway :)
I found out these were baby ladybirds on here last year. So I went to my allotment to look for some. I found loads of them, the funny thing is you get more ladybirds at oneend of our allotments than the other. I think thhis has to do with one side using more chemicals than the other.
I bought a box of them from an organic gardening company one year to eat the greenfly on our roses. Never met such stupid creatures! Would they crawl out of the box onto the rose leaves? Would they heck! - they preferred crawling the other way, up my arm ::) . Took me ages to get them where they were meant to be.
The next year we bought adult ladybirds!