Mark McCaughrean @markmccaughrean@mastodon.social
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I’m afraid that this wee beast didn’t make it through the winter.

It did manage to climb up the inside of a window overnight, but appears to have expired there.

The M-shaped marking on the head suggests that it’s a harlequin or Asian ladybird (Harmonia axyridis). Their patterns are highly variable, this one with just two small side spots.

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A close up picture of a ladybird on a piece of printed paper. The body is all red with just two small black side spots, but it is also quite rough, perhaps decayed. The head is white with an M-shaped pattern of black patches characteristic of the harlequin ladybird.
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