Category: Insects
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A quick account of a morning in the company of a rather rare ladybird, Oenopia conglobata, discovered recently in Newcastle.
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Ladybirds have been a theme of 2022. Fresh from twelve months of ladybird recording, here’s a quick round-up of the highlights this year.
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Having never tried my hand at aphid identification, this Summer proved quite a steep learning curve with many interesting species seen.
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A short guide to some of the black ladybirds you could encounter while ladybird spotting across the UK
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With visits to some of my favourite haunts and lots to see elsewhere, July has been a great month for ladybird recording.
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To help identify a few of the tricker species out there, recently, I’ve been experimenting by rearing ladybird larvae at home.
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Not only are brownfield sites phenomenal for wildlife but offer a rare look at what would happen if nature was permitted to reclaim larger tracts…
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Continuing this year’s quest to find and record ladybirds across the North East, back at the end of March I popped up to Rothbury in…
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While out and about in search of ladybirds this last few weeks, I have been lucky enough to stumble across a number of scarce and…
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Continuing this year’s Ladybird Year List and capturing records for the North East Ladybird Spot, the last few weekends have been spent admiring winter ladybirds…
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With the Natural History Society of Northumbria’s fantastic North East Ladybird Spot launching this week, most of this weekend has been spent searching for these…
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2021 has been a funny old year but despite the big c and the various restrictions it brought, it has also been a memorable one.
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Keen to further explore Newcastle’s ladybirds as part of the North East Ladybird Spot, last weekend I set off for two local sites that I…
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I’ll admit it, I have a strange fascinating with brownfield sites. Not just because some of these places – spoil heaps, forgotten corners and abandoned…