Can anyone identify this for Judi Gardner?, they had several appear on their green wheelie bin, and have never seen them before.
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I think that it is a female firefly.
If you go back and have a look now.. at 00.09.. she should be shinning !
A very rare and beautiful sight .
Pretty sure it is the larvae of a Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis). This is a foreign species that is a voracious feeder and used for biologoical pest control in crops. It is also displacing native species of ladybird and other native insects - not so good... Native larvae species do not have this orange 'box' marking - they still can be black but have orange spots on the flanks. You can register this sighting on this website:
http://www.harlequin-survey.org/recognition_and_distinction.htm
Pete Douglas, Scilly expat
Ladybird Larvae picture if it works
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Chris Tunbridge Wells Kent
Try this link
http://picfront.de/d/ao32G5Rhbzg/LadybirdLarvae.jpg
Chris
Definitley a forth instar harlequin ladybird larvae. It's an invasive species originally from Japan. Now displacing native species such as the 7-spot. Interesting to see that it has made it to the Isles of Scilly.
Oliver Ashford
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