22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata
22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, Great Ryburgh (Norfolk, UK), 24th May 2017
22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata larva, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 20th June 2020
22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 13th June 2020
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22-spot Ladybirds Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata larva and adult, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 14th August 2020
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22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 7th March 2016
22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 14th September 2020
Although I've occasionally found 22-spot Ladybird adults at home (on the mint in the garden and indoors) I have never had one come to light despite running a moth trap every night. So it was a surprise to find larvae on the eggboxes in the moth trap on a couple of occasions in 2022 - how did they get there?
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22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata larva, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 22nd August 2022
22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata larva, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 1st September 2022
This one was under the rim on the outside of the trap so could plausibly have crawled up the side of the trap. Perhaps that's what the previous ones did too, but went a bit further up and in? I'm used to finding caterpillars and other larvae in the moth trap but they're often early instars which I've assumed had emerged from eggs laid by insects attracted to the light - it seems unlikely that this was the case with these 22-spots given that I still haven't caught an adult in the trap.
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22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata larva, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 11th September 2026
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2x 22-spot Ladybirds Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 31st July 2021
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2x 22-spot Ladybirds Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, Wendling Beck Project (Norfolk, UK), 12th September 2024
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22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 30th September 2019
22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, North Elmham Cathedral Meadows (Norfolk, UK), 8th April 2020
22-spot Ladybird Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata, Blakeney Point (Norfolk, UK), 12th May 2002