NSFW? Variegated ladybugs, Hippodamia variegata, making more beetles. Photo taken on Bond Street by the Gowanus Canal. Quite a bit of action, so to speak, on these leaves. Note the eggs below, the aphid (?) on the left, and the remains of something by the female beetle’s front right.
Ladybugs
5 responses to “Ladybugs”
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X-rated pictures right on my screen! I wonder if the little aphid will become a post-romance snack? And if they’ll share. That’s an awful lot of action for one leaf.
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Sometimes the macro feature on my camera does a good job. I didn’t notice the non-ladybug things until looking at the image later.
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Might the aphid-looking thing be a young Orthoptera?
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That’s an idea. I’ll look into it once I return to the land of regular internect connection. Is it any wonder entomologists specialize?
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