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two small trees were covered with lady bugs layers deep. I never seen so many in one place
Comments (28)
mapps
Wow it's a whole herd :-)
ontar1
A Lady Bug convention, most excellent capture!
zaigodou
Like mini car :)) Nice eye!!!!!!
illkirch
They can be invasive, especially asian ladybugs. Interesting shot
eekdog
sure is alot of them. nice find.
Windigo
Dangerous little monsters in numbers! I recall my dad telling of the summer they invaded my grandfathers potato field, they went with 5 gal buckets and sticks, knocked the critters in the bucket, ran to the end of the field to empty them! Did this over and over again! Needless to say they were short potatos that year! Great photo!!
magnus073
Nice work on this amazing macro capture, Richard.
byteline
Great shot, and so many of one place!
Jay-el-Jay
An exciting shot seeing this many ladybird beetles in one place.
jayfar
And do you notice that one has no spots whist the others have differing amounts.
kenmo
That's a lot of lady bugs.....Cool capture....
emmecielle
How many "lucky charms"! I wonder if they truly bring! ;) Stunning photo! :)
three_grrr
Ladybugs eat other bugs, such as aphids, and other soft bodied bugs .. like mites, and scales, and white flies and tons of others. None of which are welcome in a garden, or on a farm. So no wonder Windigo's grandfather didn't get a lot of potatoes the year they collected all the ladybugs and dumped them away from the potato field! Had they left them, they would've eaten all those insects that destroyed the majority of the potato crop. A wonderful shot. They tend to gather in huge bunches like this in the fall, and I think in the spring as well. The last several years have seen an invasion of a Japanese or maybe Asian Lady bug, which we call stink bugs because when you crush one or disturb it, it releases a horrid smell in self defense. They bite, too. The ones we see are more orange then the native red ladybugs.
drifterlee
Beautiful! I heard the new lady bugs bite.
netsuke
Ah spring and its pheromones!
Faemike55
Great capture Richard
pimanjc
Ladybugs are usually considered beneficial around here, but I've never seen that many in a cluster.
DennisReed
cool
bazza
Great capture of these Lady bugs, last year we had many of these round our place, I opened a door that hadn't been open in a long time and where the hinges are were just covered with them much like in your photo.. Also found other groups of them all around the place..
flavia49
amazing shot
blankfrancine
Amazing glimpse into nature, Richard. Fine photography.
RodS
Never seen so many in one place - what a great macro, Richard!
jocko500
great shot
sossy
wow! must be a meeting! at the end of the summer I have a lot of them in my livingroom invited by the lamplight and open window! ;o)
farmerC
Exellent shot.
starship64
Wonderful close-up.
Rock69
I never saw so many of them before too. Cool shot!! :-)
danapommet
A fantastic find and capture Richard - I have not seen more than one or two together!