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For today's Looking close... on Friday! theme 'A Single Blade of Grass', a seven-spot ladybird using a single blade of grass as an umbrella!
"Coccinella septempunctata"
Le coccinelle sono insetti di piccola taglia, in genere di grandezza compresa tra 1 e 10 mm (eccezionalmente oltre il centimetro), solitamente di forma emisferica, in genere con livree vistose a colori contrastanti.
Le specie con livree vistose sono tra gli insetti più familiari: per l'utilità, l'inoffensività e l'aspetto dalla forma curiosa e dai colori vivi, inducono un atteggiamento di simpatia anche in chi prova repulsione verso gli insetti in generale. Alcuni le considerano dei portafortuna. Molte specie sono invece ignorate per le piccole dimensioni e per la livrea insignificante.
A dispetto dell'apparente inoffensività e dell'aspetto simpatico, quasi tutti i Coccinellidi sono in realtà attivi predatori dotati di una notevole voracità al punto che sono frequenti i casi di cannibalismo e comportamenti predatori alquanto sofisticati. Per questi motivi sono tra i più interessanti predatori impiegati nella lotta biologica.
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スノーフレーク(鈴蘭水仙） in my garden
学名 Leucojum aestivum
英名 Summer snowflake
ナナホシテントウムシ
学名 Coccinella septempunctata
Seven Spot Ladybirds are about 6-7mm long and their bright colouring and markings warn predators of their poisonous or distasteful nature. They are, in turn, predators of soft-bodied insects. I found this one at RSPB Saltholme.
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Explore #127.- En general sentimos una cierta animadversión hacia los insectos. Quizás solo se salvan las mariposas y las mariquitas. Será por su belleza ?
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En torno a ellas se han creado historias que las asocian con la buena suerte. Juegan un importante papel controlando las plagas de pulgones y otros parásitos de las plantas, son pesticidas naturales.
Hay unas 5000 especies de mariquitas en el mundo.
La mariquita de dos manchas (Adalia bipunctata) fue nombrada oficialmente insecto nacional en 1991 por la Sociedad de Entomólogos de Letonia.
Coccinelle à sept points - Coccinella septempunctata -
L'autochtone ...qui a tendance à disparaitre au profit de sa cousine asiatique , importée en Europe et aux Etats-Unis dès le début du XXe siècle , puis massivement à la fin des années 1980 pour la lutte biologique
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The native ... which tends to disappear in favor of its Asian cousin, imported into Europe and the United States from the beginning of the 20th century, then massively at the end of the 1980s for biological control
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ナナホシテントウムシ Coccinella septempunctata
芙蓉の爆ぜた果実の上にいました。
フヨウ（芙蓉） アオイ科
学名は Hibiscus mutabilis
英名は Cotton rose hibiscus
Ladybug on a fruit of Cotton rose hibiscus(Hibiscus mutabilis)
Seven-spot ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) is approaching a colony of aphids. From island Zealand in Denmark; 23-07-2020.
For those who do not know, ladybirds are actually predator insects that like to eat aphids.
This image was taken handheld during my own private tour.
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Returning from the Hortus where I saw the very first budding Tulips of this year, I walked along the Muiderstraat enjoying the fairly new flowerbeds now decorating what was formerly a concrete bore. Marsh Spurge is coming into its own even in the chilly weather. Lots of Green Flowers and then I noticed this Brilliant Ladybug enjoying a meal of Spring-green Aphids. You can clearly see how one, losing its plumpness - is being sucked 'dry'.
Most visitors quickly bypass rushes and grasses in the Hortus. But insects are less picky. For example, you'll see Hoverflies if you're patient, and I saw this pretty Seven-spot Ladybird. Here it's on Soft Rush; the Latin word 'Juncus' indicates that this rush was once used for (basket) weaving. Ladybirds like hunting for Aphids, but that may be in vain here. I for one haven't seen any on this Rush. Ladybirds are said to be harbingers of good luck... Perhaps also for its hunting here.