ladybirds mating?
fidgetbones
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This morning on an apple leaf. The rear one is black with two red patches, the underneath one is red with lots of black spots. Are these the same species. ???
Judging from the jiggy jggy that was going on I guess these were mating.
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I've seen several unmatched pairs in connubial bliss on my roses lately - I hope they know what they're doing .............
Fidget, I found this http://everything-ladybug.com/ladybug-spots.html it seems that there are all sorts of variants within species - our ladybirds knew what they were doing
This was one I took on 29th April.....they started early up here
According to Springwatch ladybird nookie takes up to 8 hours
Blimey.
Old age is when it takes you all night to do what you used to do all night.
I'm coming back as a ladybird
Heehee! We saw some doing the 'tango' in botanical gardens other day, my little girl said ' look Mummy that owns having a ride on the other one's back!' They looked 2 different types too,hope they waft their babies across the road to us, only seen a few here, have loads of bees , not enough ladybirds
It must be the weather. I found another pair "at it"
It's what they do. The birds, the bees and the ladybirds. Except of course, come to think of it, most bees don't. Go figure (as some might say).