Posts Tagged: ladybugs

Mother's Day Delight

Mother's Day, insect-style, dawned like any other day. In our back yard, golden honey bees foraged in the lavender and those ever-so-tiny sweat bees...

Italian honey bee foraging on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Italian honey bee foraging on lavender. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sweat bee (genus Lasioglossum) visiting rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Sweat bee (genus Lasioglossum) visiting rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ladybug, aka lady beetle, chasing aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ladybug, aka lady beetle, chasing aphids. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The Love Bugs

"You can never be too rich, too young, too blonde or too thin," a quote often attributed to Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.Well, you can never...

Ladybugs and soldier beetles--along with aphids--on a plum tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ladybugs and soldier beetles--along with their prey, aphids--on a plum tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Fast-moving soldier beetle crawls toward a pair of ladybugs on a plum tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Fast-moving soldier beetle crawls toward a pair of ladybugs on a plum tree. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ladybug eggs mean more ladybugs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ladybug eggs mean more ladybugs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Why We Love Ladybugs

There's a good reason why lady beetles, aka ladybugs, are prevalent this time of year: aphids.Ladybugs, from the family Coccinellidae, are actually...

Two ladybugs converging on a plum tree leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

LADYBUGS converging on a plum tree leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Aphids covering a rosebud. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Aphids covering a rsoebud. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ladybugs in February

The overwintering ladybugs tucked in the leaves of our tangerine tree are gone.Sunny temperatures hit 75 degrees, and off they went. Guess they...

Ladybug in February

OVERWINTERING ladybug perches on top of a tangerine tree leaf as temperatures hit 75 degrees. This is an introduced species, Coccinella septempunctata, as identified by Natalia Vandenberg, a USDA employee with the Systematic Entomology Lab, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

'Crawl Space'

LADYBUG (Coccinella septempunctata) crawls down a tangerine leaf on a sunny day in February. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Back Up

LADYBUG (Coccinella septempunctata) crawls back up a leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

What's Better than a Ladybug?

If there's anything better than one ladybug, it's two ladybugs.And if there's anything better than two ladybugs, it's a cluster of ladybugs.Our bee...

Ladybug

OVERWINTERING ladybug walks out onto an artemisa leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Color of Winter

LADYBUG adds color to a tangerine leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Cluster of Ladybugs

WHAT'S BETTER than one ladybug? A cluster of ladybugs. These are nestling in the folds of a tangerine leaf. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey}

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