Summer Photograph - Sitting Pretty by Darren Fisher

Sitting Pretty is a photograph by Darren Fisher which was uploaded on August 18th, 2014.

Sitting Pretty

A beautiful lady bug sitting on top of a black eyed Susan bloom. I used a macro lens to capture the little lady on an overcast day. I then used... more

by Darren Fisher

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Title

Sitting Pretty

Artist

Darren Fisher

Medium

Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art

Description

A beautiful lady bug sitting on top of a black eyed Susan bloom. I used a macro lens to capture the little lady on an overcast day. I then used effects and textures to create a painterly look.
The Coccinellidae are a family of small beetles, ranging from 0.8 to 18 mm (0.0315 to 0.708 inches).[3] They are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, heads and antennae. Such colour patterns vary greatly, however; for example, a minority of species, such as Vibidia duodecimguttata, a twelve-spotted species, have whitish spots on a brown background. Coccinellids are found worldwide, with over 5,000 species described,[4] more than 450 native to North America alone.

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 18th, 2014