Good grief, the sun is out.
And ladybirds are trundling about.
I had high hopes this white-faced specimen was a native. She was small with relatively simple markings and seemed to be bumbling around the edge of the parsley pot like a humble peasant.
I guessed she may be a native 10 spot.
But alas, no.
Offered up to I Spot 'Grizzledbadger' identified her as a non-native Harlequin. Which immediately turns her into a gaudy trollop.
Grizzledbadger backs up his arguement with this observation:
Stylised M on pronotum,a H.axyridis f. succinea variant where the spots only occur on the front/ pronotum end of the elytra.Mr Badger thus gives us an opportunity to learn some new interesting words:
