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Bugs

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MikeHardman

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Re: Bugs
« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2011, 03:59:40 PM »
Lygaeus saxatilis.
Piccy in Paul Sterry's 'Complete Mediterranean Wildlife' (Collins, 2000), p.168
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Geologist by Uni training, IT consultant, Referee for Viola for Botanical Society of the British Isles, commissioned author and photographer on Viola for RHS (Enc. of Perennials, The Garden, The Plantsman).
I garden near Polis, Cyprus, 100m alt., on marl, but have gardened mainly in S.England
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JTh

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Re: Bugs
« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2011, 08:44:26 PM »
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MikeHardman

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Re: Bugs
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2011, 09:17:03 PM »
Lygaeus seems to be synonymous with Spilostethus, hence some images can be found under Spilostethus saxatilis.
(I can't be sure it is synonymy of genera per se; it could be part of a larger rearrangement of species within genera in the Lygaeidae or Lygaeinae.)
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Geologist by Uni training, IT consultant, Referee for Viola for Botanical Society of the British Isles, commissioned author and photographer on Viola for RHS (Enc. of Perennials, The Garden, The Plantsman).
I garden near Polis, Cyprus, 100m alt., on marl, but have gardened mainly in S.England

The Cypriot

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Re: Bugs
« Reply #18 on: October 02, 2011, 12:00:31 PM »
Thank you for the identification of the beetle.

I do know that these are ladybirds!
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JTh

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Re: Bugs
« Reply #19 on: October 02, 2011, 01:40:19 PM »
You could use those as Christmas cards.
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MikeHardman

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Re: Bugs
« Reply #20 on: October 03, 2011, 07:04:13 AM »
Nice observation.
They are seven-spot ladybirds - Coccinella septempunctata.
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Mike
Geologist by Uni training, IT consultant, Referee for Viola for Botanical Society of the British Isles, commissioned author and photographer on Viola for RHS (Enc. of Perennials, The Garden, The Plantsman).
I garden near Polis, Cyprus, 100m alt., on marl, but have gardened mainly in S.England
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