9 Apr 2011

An odd ladybird in a London park

During a picnic in London's Springfield Park today, a very strange ladybird (family name Coccinellidae) came to join us. I've seen red ladybirds with black spots and vice versa, but never a yellow one with white spots! Anyone know what sort it is?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it is an orange ladybird.. fairly comon in the northern part of the UK

Anonymous said...

This is a Fukujima Lady Bug from Japan.

Anonymous said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halyzia_sedecimguttata

Wikipedia has the answer.

Simon-m3hxe.