As their name suggests, harlequin ladybirds are brightly coloured and have varied patterning, which can make them confusing to identify. Helen Boyce has made this task much easier by providing a ...

Breathing Places would like you to turn over leaves, roll back stones and peer inside window frames in the hunt for ladybirds. Populations of some native UK ladybirds are in decline, possibly due ...

Fungi and Lichens Natural History Museum Interactive guide for on twig lichens ... Woodland Trust Simple identification sheet for 20 ladybirds. British Bugs Lengthy list of bugs separated by family.

If you find that your bug hotel doesn't get any guests this winter, try a different location next year. All species of ladybird in the UK hibernate. Insect hibernation is called diapause. Ladybirds do ...

Five species are considered important for the control of aphids on cereals, potatoes and sugar beet. Ladybirds are good flyers; however, adult dispersal is random and it is only when they settle on a ...

But they face threats too. Do One Thing for nature - spend some time looking for ladybirds and join the UK Ladybird Survey run by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). View some of the results ...

For half a century its wings were spread, and it was only in 1965 that Ladybird adopted the spotty shell motif it’s retained ever since. CreateFuture has left the logo – last updated in 2004 – as it ...