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

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

I think it's a traditional 2 spot ladybird, with slightly abnormal colours. They come in a black spot on red variety and a red spot on black variety, like so:

http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/beetle3.htm

Pretty little thing, anyhow.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - that's a lovely site.

When and if I can find someone selling a crash helmet that actually fits me again (which seems to be rather difficult at the moment) I'll look at getting one that deep red/maroon colour, it's about the same as my last motorbike and I always liked that.