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I don't know anything about ladybirds but every December I get ladybirds appearing in my bathroom. Yesterday I again found my first - is this normal? I've no idea where they come from or how they get in. Wildething - Your ladybirds are looking

Leaving aside whether or not ladybirds are good or bad, there are nearly 30 different species in the UK. A good visual guide can be found hereThere is an 'orange' ladybird, Halyzia sedecimguttata, and several other pale pinky ones.Also, common 7

my climbing rose has over 30 ladybirds on it ...i think they are harlequin bugs but unsure [look like the photo you have].they are eating all the green fly up.yummmmmmmmy. I would like to have a rose arch in the garden and wondered whether to buy

. It is Clitostethus arcuatus, Britain's smallest, and perhaps rarest, ladybird. Of course, not being of the large, spotted, variety, it is not really counted as a true ladybird, and is not included in any of the online ladybird surveys. But it is a closely related

Hi, Can anybody advise on a beetle I've just noticed on my lavender? It's the same shape as a ladybird bit it's bronze. On each wing case it has three or four pale orange stripes from head to tail which you have to get up close to see. Squish

.Every year at Gardeners’ World Live I see the ladybird poppy (Papaver commutatum), and wish I had it. I never see it at any flower shows or public gardens, or even growing in people’s own gardens – but there it is, without fail flowering its socks off

Ive just found a harlequin ladybird climbing up the inside of my kitchen window. Have caught it and currently have it trapped under a glass on the kitchen table. As these critters are not native to these isles, should I terminate it or live

I have come across yellow,blak with red spots but not orange. Rose, Could be.................the Orange Ladybird, Halyzia 16-guttata, which is fairly widely distributed in the south of Britain. It breeds on Sycamore, Dogwood and a range of other

I do love ladybirds. There used to be millions of them in Oxford when I was a kid. Seems I never see them at all these days, mind you, I live in North now. ON my allotment i use bark for the paths and mulch with grass cutings in places and leaf

It would be really helpful if you could show a picture of the ladybird larvae, as I also may have squashed them. I haven't seen a single ladybird in my garden this year and neither, having asked on TMF wildlife and gardening threads, have most other