Have you spotted your first ladybug yet, this spring?
I love how the first spotting is always a surprise. We were out checking out one of the holes made by our neighborhood ground squirrels, in the vacant lot next to our house...
...when a little flash of red caught our eye.
...easily identified by its 7 spots, black pronotum (the part that looks like the head) with two large white (eye-like) spots (thanks to a handy dandy identification chart from the Lost Ladybug Project).
How about you? What kind of ladybugs have you spotted so far?
8 comments:
We'll have to keep our eyes out for the first ladybug. I don't think we have yet! Thanks for the reminder.
We love Ladybugs. We had them as pets, and learned a lot from them.
Here is a post of our ladybug learning folder:
http://www.duallearninghomeschool.blogspot.com/2015/02/home-learning-21015.html
In this post you can see their habitat:
http://www.duallearninghomeschool.blogspot.com/2015/01/home-learning-12215.html
I haven't seen any outside yet, but we hsve these yellow orange ones that live in our house all year despite my trying to get them out. How do you go about identifying them.Our field guide only says ladybug without any variations.
Phyllis - Try this link - http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?guide=Ladybug
Always happy to see that very first ladybug :)
Now I'm trying to remember if we've seen one yet.
Yup, my littlest brought me in two just today. They are very beautiful.
We got to see a whole bunch this year - a swarm decided to settle near us for a few days. It was great! I will have to go back to the photos to try to identify them.
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