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Insect trio

I saw the Cinnabar larva on this ragwort from some distance away then getting closer saw the ladybird, I had taken two or three shots then the shieldbug appeared from nowhere to make a trio. Ragwort is poisonous and the larva is able to cope with this and becomes poisonous itself hence the yellow and black colouring common danger warning in nature to potential predators. The ladybird would be in search for aphids and the shieldbug lives on plant juices, whether it can cope with ragwort I don't know. (See below for image of Cinnabar moth)

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Uploaded on July 30, 2018
Taken on July 30, 2018