Lady of Summer is a photograph by Darren Fisher which was uploaded on August 17th, 2014.
Lady of Summer
A beautiful little lady bug captured on a Purple cone Flower on an over cast day. I added a texture so the image would have a painterly... more
Title
Lady of Summer
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful little lady bug captured on a Purple cone Flower on an over cast day. I added a texture so the image would have a painterly look.
Coccinellidae are known colloquially as ladybirds (in Britain, Ireland, the Commonwealth, and some parts of the southern United States), ladybugs (originating in North America) or lady cows, among other names.[5] When they need to use a common name, entomologists widely prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles[6] as these insects are not true bugs.
The Coccinellidae are generally considered useful insects, because many species feed on aphids or scale insects, which are pests in gardens, agricultural fields, orchards, and similar places. Within the colonies of such plant-eating pests, they will lay hundreds of eggs, and when these hatch the larvae will commence feeding immediately.[7] However, some species do have unwelcome effects. Among these, the most prominent are the subfamily Epilachninae, which are plant eaters. Usually, Epilachninae are only mild agricultural pests, eating the leaves of grain, potatoes, beans, and various other crops, but their numbers can increase explosively in years when their natural enemies are few, such as parasitoid wasps that attack their eggs. In such situations, they can do major crop damage. They occur in practically all the major crop-producing regions of temperate and tropical countries.
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August 17th, 2014
