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Ladybirds (Coccinellidae)
Below are some photographs of the larger species taken with a mobile phone (though I should make an effort to get the dslr and macro lens out) and the much smaller, inconspicuous species (<3 mm) identified with a hand lens or a stereo dissecting microscope.
Above: Bryony Ladybird (Henosepilachna argus) feeding on White Bryony (Bryonia dioica).
Bryony Ladybird Henosepilachna argus Forestier's Ladybird Rhyzobius forestieri
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In
2020 our five year-old's interest in invertebrates
really began to develop. We started rearing some ladybird larvae
and collecting a few pupae to observe their development
more closely. This soon progressed to grasshoppers and
bush-crickets too. Since then we've been sweep-netting
and tree-beating in the local area to find as many species
as possible (and recording them using the