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On a walk with my husband. He stopped to tie his shoelace, I walked ahead. On a gate, a pair of ladybirds, were going at it. I heard my husband catch up with me & pointed, saying "hahah! Look at those two!" Only to realise it wasn't my husband, but a confused-looking stranger.

October 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM Everybody can reply

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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author

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Bright sunny day and we're being swarmed with ladybirds all over our balcony and patio doors

October 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Little Green Space

@lgspace.bsky.social

There are 40+ species of ladybird in the UK - they help maintain healthy ecosystems in gardens and green spaces. Ladybirds need safe places to shelter and hibernate over winter, so avoid cutting back hollow stems and seed heads like teasels & sedums.
littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/lad...

Ladybird sheltering in a dead seed head. Image Geograph/Walter Baxter

October 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM Everybody can reply

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@s4r4h-l

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#InsectThursday and #ThrowbackThursday combined with a pair of 7 spot #Ladybirds cuddling together on 16th October 2021 on #Preston #vitaminN #Lancashire

A pair of 7 spot ladybirds cuddling on nettle leaves

October 16, 2025 at 6:33 AM Everybody can reply

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Radio Lento

@radiolento.bsky.social

Lovely ladybirds on logs.

two red ladybirds on the top of a wooden post. grass blurry behind

one orange ladybird with lots of spots on wood

October 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM Everybody can reply

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choosearandomname.bsky.social

@choosearandomname.bsky.social

Ladybirds overwintering in the men’s toilet British camp, Worcestershire

October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM Everybody can reply

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Per Smiseth

@persmiseth.bsky.social

Collection of critters from yesterday’s visit to Newington Cemetery, #Edinburgh: 18-spot, Larch, Eyed, Orange & Harlequin #Ladybirds (I counted 356 of the latter, including 1 eating a hoverfly larva) ... #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

Harlequin Ladybird eating a hoverfly (Syrphus sp) larva

October 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM Everybody can reply

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Mark

@rfcider.bsky.social

This is the year we could find out what Ladybirds bring to the blend 😂

October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM Everybody can reply

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National Trust - Midlands & East

@midsandeastnt.bsky.social

The collective term for ladybirds is a loveliness.

Have you noticed that ladybirds have been taking advantage of the dry, sunny conditions to find a sheltered spot to hide for winter? The summer's warm conditions are responsible for this autumn's ladybird explosion.

📸 Mike Selby, Anglesey Abbey

Statue in the grounds at Anglesey Abbey covered in ladybirds.

October 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM Everybody can reply

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Per Smiseth

@persmiseth.bsky.social

Cream-streaked Ladybird (Harmonia quadripunctata) from Warriston Cemetery, #Edinburgh, this morning. #Ladybirds #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord.

October 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM Everybody can reply

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Ken T

@velociraptor500.bsky.social

Throughout the summer the only Ladybirds found in the garden have been seven spot until this weekend when moving a pile of timber. Now have to identify each species.

October 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM Everybody can reply

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Sam

@samssslearning.bsky.social

Just adore this foliage colour. Also a super spot for moths & ladybirds to shelter 🌱 #GardensHour

October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM Everybody can reply

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stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social

@stjohnsgraveyard.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves Day 14: Inside

Going back to the black glass-fronted Bannister grave from Day 8, I zoomed in to capture #Ladybirds resting inside the floral carvings of forget-me-nots and roses.

No greenfly on these roses, but they'd have found lots of red spider mites.

#LadyBugs

#Nature

October 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM Everybody can reply

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Go4Know

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🔥 Why Do Ladybugs Have Spots – And Do Their Numbers Really Mean Something?

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#knowledge #edusky #ai #aiart #chatgpt #midjourney #photo #photography #ladybugs #nature #insects #ladybirds #wildlife #macro #colors #spots #animals #red #black

October 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM Everybody can reply

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Dark Black Effect

@ramsghetto.social

Im surprised that there are so many #Ladybirds or #Ladybugs about this time of year. Went for a wander and there were loads of them. This one decided to join me for a sit down

#ramsgate #kent #photography #photo #blackandwhite #monochrome #photooftheday #photographersofbluesky #insects #wildlife

October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Bodmin Hermit

@bodminhermit.bsky.social

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR! Cluster flies make a bee-line (no pun intended) for the cottage, and the Ladybirds trundle across the conservatory. What do the do during the winter, and why do I loath flies and love Ladybirds? All part of life's rich tapestry!

October 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM Everybody can reply

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Cornucopist

@cornucopist.bsky.social

Morning! Monday morning rush hour

Three ladybirds - two orange and one red - crawling along the edge of a black bin

October 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM Everybody can reply

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Steve Gale

@stevewg.bsky.social

Headley Heath, Surrey: a Goshawk, 5 Hawfinch and a Crossbill, but highlight was the vast numbers of Harlequin Ladybirds on the wing. I brushed so many off me and my optics that at the end of the session my hands smelt strongly of their acrid defence ‘juice’ #UKBirding

October 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM Everybody can reply

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🍂 AcidaPluvia 🍂

@geckodragon.art

Hi there! My name is Akki, I am a freelance fantasy illustrator now based in the UK, and sometimes I doodle stuff other than dragons - but I haven't included any today! :D
#PortfolioDay

Artwork, titled: Little Firestarters. It features several small red, orange, and yellow fire breathing dragons, perched on lanterns in the fading light of the day. The setting is a glmpse of a village, and the viewpoint is from the perspective of a tiny dragon looking down. The wings of each dragon are illuminated from the their firelight as they hang precariously from delicate round paper lanterns.

Artwork, titled: Woodland Debate. Two larger than life dragons, one blue and one red, comfortable discuss dragony things while nestled in the embrace of a large tree's roots. The scene is idyllic, with tiny floral details and insects surrounding the two creatures, illuminated by dappled sunlight. This scene (vaguely) references Raphael's School of Athens, showing these 'monstrous' entities politely sharing discourse on human philosphy in such a wild setting.

Artwork, titled: Boss Levels - Platformer Dragon. This was made a number of years ago for a guro themed publication called Gummy Guts, run by the artist AyCee.

The work features a noodle shaped dragon, surrounded by grassy platforms in a surrealist style. The intention was to show a "game level" in an old SNES game, where the player must traverse the entire inside of the dragon and collect it's heart pieces. In this scenario, you would save the princess of the floating castle shown in the background, and make the shattered beast whole again once you defeat his rage-form in the boss battle.

Artwork, titled: Tiny Foragers. This was my submission for the Tiny Dragon portfolio contest, though this did not get selected.

This piece features two small green and brown gecko-like dragons, forgaing in autumnal mountain underbrush for ladybirds (little red insects with black spots). The setting is leafy evergreen plants, with lichen and mushrooms on the forest floor, punctuated with small brushy saplings/shrubs in oranges and rust shades.

Inititally this piece was a different size format, but I have edited it for printing at A3 size.

October 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM Everybody can reply

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@s4r4h-l

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social

#JoinMeOnMyWalk Such a colourful walk in #Preston this morning, finding fabulous #fungi,gorgeous #autumn leaves, pretty flowers, ladybirds and even #butterflies! @photohour.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #joy

Clockwise from top left; fabulous colours on these turkey tail 'roses', rich autumn leaves, a huge tree, fungi showing their gills, ladybird, speckled wood butterfly, an avenue of trees, marigolds, inkcaps, stinking iris fruit, and witches butter fungi

October 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM Everybody can reply

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John McGowan

@jmc223.bsky.social

For some reason there has been an absolute swarm of ladybirds in the last couple of days!! Here's one! The invasive Harlequin seen at Cofton Hackett Worcestershire UK - 07-10-25 #photography #insects #canon #macro #naturephotography #nature #uknature

October 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM Everybody can reply

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National Trust

@nationaltrust.org.uk

One of our favourite nature facts is that the collective term for a group of ladybirds is 'a loveliness of ladybirds'.

What's yours?

#BBCNatureWeek

October 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Terry & Judy Wood

@tandjwood.bsky.social

A well marked Nursery-web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis) found in the utility room and placed outside. Think the inverts have been watching the Harlequin ladybirds and following suit!