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Sunday
Oct052014

More Ladybird Beetles

A variant of Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) with orange-red elytra and only faint black spots.

Here is one with larger spots:

And on this one some of the spots are beginning to merge:

First two photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2012-07-28 and 2012-06-13, respectively. Third photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-10-20.

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