CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary describes encounters with ladybirds in Weardale and Teesdale. Back in the spring it seemed as th...

This is a frequent sight in our garden early in the morning at this time of year - a seven-spot ladybird holed up inside (well, almost ins...

A lot of bloggers have reported unusually large numbers of seven-spot ladybirds emerging after overwintering successfully and I don...

This morning this seven-spot ladybird crawled out onto a foxglove leaf in our garden, near the bird table, and spent the whole day there. ...

This little huddle of 7-spot ladybirds, apparently settling down for communal hibernation, were a bit premature in their choice of these ...

Ladybirds have a fine reputattion as greenfly-slayers, but what do they feed on in spring, before the aphid population explosion gets under...