Harlequin Ladybird
Variants
 
The Harlequin Ladybird shows considerable variation and probably no two adults are exactly alike. This page shows some of the variants we have recorded to date. There are several common colour forms although real aberrant adults (see bottom pictures) away from known colour forms are surprisingly rare.
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Harmonia axyridis f. succinea
Photographed at Hare Hill Wood near Kersall, November 5th 2006.
 
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Photographed at Lound Wood, October 19th 2006.
 
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Photographed at Hare Hill Wood near Kersall, November 6th 2006.
 
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Harmonia axyridis f. conspicua
Photographed at Hare Hill Wood near Kersall, November 5th 2006.
 
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Photographed at Hare Hill Wood near Kersall, November 6th 2006
 
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Harmonia axyridis f. spectabilis
Photographed at Hare Hill Wood near Kersall, November 5th 2006.
 
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Photographed at Sherwood Forest CP August 3rd 2010
 
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Other variants
Photographed at Hare Hill Wood near Kersall, November 5th 2006.
 
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Photographed at New Ollerton, October 2010.
 
 
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