A guide to finding and identifying inconspicuous ladybirds in the UK, including Scymnus, Nephus, Coccidula, Rhyzobius, Hyperaspis, Clitostethus and Stethorus. Ladybird1
His research focuses on understanding the spread distribution of the invasive harlequin species of ladybird, both in the UK and worldwide. Peter monitors the effects of the harlequin’s spread on our native ladybird species and is involved in genetic work to detect predation of ladybirds and ...
A common Ladybird that has it's UK stronghold in the Midlands. It is always recognised by the dark mid-line and square spots. There are usually fourteen distinct spots but these are variable in size and can be joined in some adults. In Nottinghamshire, it is a very common species and an...
The Harlequin ladybird is native to Asia but was first spotted in the UK in 2004. Experts say its an invasive species which often swarms around Halloween.
The resulting contigs were joined into transcript isoforms using Oases (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/oases/), which has been developed specifically for the de novo assembly of transcriptomes using short reads. To obtain non-redundant transcripts, we removed short sequences (< 100 bp in ...