The warm weather is causing the increased sightings of ladybirds, experts say, after a swarm of the insects disrupted play during the England cricket side’s test against India. At such a critical ...

UK gardeners have been encouraged to keep record of ladybird sightings as the heatwave sees them swarm in “very high numbers” ...

Ladybug species that are usually orange in appearance include two-spot ladybirds, nine-spotted lady beetles, convergent lady beetles, large leaf-eating ladybirds, 10-spotted ladybirds, eyed ...

There are about 5,000 species in the Coccinellidae, or ladybug, family. Get to know more about these insects and whether they can bite.

One species, the harlequin ladybug, keeps toasty by entering our homes. These insects will gather in huge numbers and settle into dark crevices in a house.

How to identify a harlequin ladybird Ladybirds belong to the family of beetles known as Coccinellidae, of which there are at least 3,500 species worldwide. In the UK there are 46 species known to be ...

The beetles haunting your home are likely the seven-spotted ladybug's cousin: the Asian lady beetle, also known as the harlequin ladybird or "Halloween beetle" because of its annual autumn appearance.

A new species for the North East, the conifer-loving epaulet ladybird has also been encountered for the first time at two sites close to Newcastle.

In August 2020 he discovered another new species in Ireland, the epaulette “arboreal” ladybird, using the same beating technique under an exotic Monterey pine on the campus of UCC.

It's unclear to what extent it occurs in the wild and across the more than 5,000 species of ladybug globally. Also, there's no evidence of ladybugs "realizing" anything, much less that a ...