Interesting ladybird

[ffutures]

My brother-in-law found this on the roof while cleaning gutters. I'm not sure if it's alive, dead, or hibernating, but it appears to be a ladybird with a black body and rather nice colour on the spots.

Ladybird

My first attempt at putting a picture into a livejournal gallery - to be honest I'm not very impressed, think I'll stick to Photobucket.

Comments

[ouatic-7.livejournal.com]

Is that a reflection or is the shell a bit crumpled?

Re posting the photos: Do you use a client or type directly into your browser? I used to link to my SmugMug account but my client (I use Semagic) will do it all for me. I make the post, link to a pic on my PC and Semagic uploads the pic and updates the link so all is happy. I wouldn't use the LJ scrapbook at all except for that.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The shell did look a bit crumpled - tried taking one from the other side but it didn't look clear on the computer. I think it was either dead or hibernating, didn't want to prod it too hard to find out.