Ladybirds everywhere

[Yamadori]

I've just been into my garden and there are loads of ladybirds, I must have seen about a dozen all flying about at the same time.

Anyone else noticed anything?

Can you send some my way, my crab apples are infested with woolly aphids and the bloody ants are having a ball.

Those are probably the pupae casts/cases. The larva attaches itself to a leaf to pupate, the adult then emerges from a slightly scary looking cocoon (without the lovely soft butterfly silk).

One was on me for literally two hours today and then I was out riding tonight and one came along on my horses ear for the whole time! There are tonnes of them everywhere and I love it tbh!

That might be it, they are curled up not the long bumpy shape

I'm glad you are all seeing lots of ladybirds, because I've only seen two this year ☹️, I'm in NE Scotland and surrounded by fields that get regularly sprayed.

I haven't seen any, south West London, but there are loads of butterflies

We have just as many ladybirds this afternoon as we had yesterday. Flying and crawling all over the place, including a couple on my dining room curtains😂

we seem to have loads of wasps 😅

YES! 🐝(Sorry that's a bee, I couldn't find a wasp emoji!)

I am noticing more ladybirds now too ...

And as I said earlier, soooooooo many glorious and beautiful butterflies! 😍

Yes! They're gobbling up my blackfly 🐞

It's calmed down a bit today ladybird-wise, and we have more butterflies, including a speckled wood this morning.

Lots on the south coast, and far more butterflies than last year.

There’s loads flying round my garden currently, wasn’t sure what they were at first then looked a bit closer.

🤣🤣🤣 my favourite MN comment.

we’ve had many different types of butterfly too. Love them! 🤩

We have had loads in the garden this last few days! Ds 2 is fascinated by them! I've seen more wildlife in my garden then ever before this year, I even saw my first humming bird moth it was amazing!

I actually have apples and quince this year. Nothing got pollinated last year at all! So many different bugs around. It’s fantastic

My roses were covered in greenfly, so I went online and bought 50 ladybirds and 75 larvae

By the time they arrived the roses were covered in ladybirds - huge, great big ladybirds. They have gone from scuttling around to being very still, almost as if they have stuffed themselves silly 🤣

I released the ones I bought into the same flowerbeds so they now have lots of new friends!

Yes I've noticed lots in my garden and local park. Butterflies too!

I’ve been pleased at the upsurge in butterflies, and now lots of ladybirds over the last few days. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it an attack, and certainly not like 197?.
However, very pleasing.

It's been crazy for butterfly's here (east Anglia) seen common blue, cabbage whites, red admirals (tonnes), painted ladys (tonnes) meadow browns and peacocks. You can't go near the budlia as you get swarmed. Never seen anything like it. It's been very sunny and dry here.

Also had to reduce a number of lady birds from inside and even the slide at the local playground to stop them getting squished by the kids.

I was just remarking earlier that the buddleia had loads of butterflies! I've seen 2 ladybirds today but haven't been out much tbh.

I'm so pleased to find this thread - we’ve got SO many ladybirds at the moment! (I'm in the SE). My tortoise loves this hot weather and he’s charging around with ladybirds hitching a ride on his shell 😂

This is exactly what's happening in my garden.

@Yamadori I read earlier today that a ‘group’ of ladybirds is called a ‘loveliness’. I LOVE that! 🐞