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Spring is sprung! The first sign of spring in my garden is the appearance of lungwort.
Lungwort (Pulmonaria sp.)
Is it my imagination or are the ladybirds out early this year? There seem to be an awful lot of them – the last time there was a plague of ladybirds was in 1976 and weather forecasters are predicting a 1976-style drought. Is there a connection?
Seven spot ladybird (Coccinella 7-punctata)
Not quite sure about this one – it could be a pine ladybird or a variety of harlequin ladybird.
Great photographs – you clearly have more spring in your Spring than we have yet in the north of Scotland.
And far more than we have here in Massachusetts, too! I admire your ability to distinguish between the “ladybirds” (which we call “lady bugs”). None here yet, but we still have a tiny bit of snow on the ground.
I am in Oxfordshire and we seem to have a bit of a plague going on here too. They are everywere, but thankfully not the harlequins.
Same plague – I am also in Oxfordshire. I seem to remember that the plague of ’76 was national – I was living on the Fylde Coast (Yorkshire) at the time and remember walking down the street covered in ladybirds.