Category: Ladybird Recording
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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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With the arrival of winter, now seemed like a good time to look back on a year’s worth of ladybirds and look forward to a…
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A breif and evolving list of great places to find and record ladybirds in North East England.
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From the city carparks and cemeteries to chalk mounds at Prudhoe, it has been a fantastic fortnight for local ladybirds.
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This week, I was delighted to record what appears to be the first Spotted Marsh Ladybird recorded in South Northumberland (VC67). Searching various local wetlands…
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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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Inspired by the Natural History Society of Northumbria’s North East Ladybird Spot and the #LadybirdYearList challenge launched on Twitter by Andrew Jewels, this year I’ve…
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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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Recently, I was delighted to discover a population of the inconspicuous ladybird, Rhyzobius chrysomeloides, in Tyneside.
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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…