Ladybug group shot
My brother Mark Pescovitz snapped this photo of hibernating ladybugs in his garage. He has a show of his photographs of "groupings" opening March 28 at Indiana University's Marsh Galley in Indianapolis. In his spare time, Mark is a transplant surgeon and professor of microbiology and immunology.
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I have my doubts that he's really your brother, he doesn't look like it at all.
Woah! I thought those were japanese fermented beans. (Nattou)!
One of my favorite ladybug pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/422057690/
Are the bugs pictured above actually those pesky Asian Lady Beetles?
"Despite the wide variation in background color and number of spots, they all share a distinguishing mark on their pronotum. Viewing the beetle from it's topside, the pronotum is that small section that separates the head area from the abdomen (where the wing covers start). There is a mark on the pronotum that looks like a "W" or "M" depending upon whether you are looking at it from the front or rear. All multi-colored Asian lady beetles have this mark that domestic ladybugs lack."
I don't live far from IU, I'll have to check it out.
Oh, that's IUPUI, not IU. Still not a far travel though.
got the same thing going in my bedroom.
http://flickr.com/photos/sterik/2277792804/
that little guy is on his way to the party.
@MAURIK (#1), Our hair looks the same, no? ; )
Yeah, those are Asian lady beetles; Ladybugs spend the winter in trees and not in structures. We had a major influx of those a few years back. I read online that a humane way to move them outside was with a vacuum cleaner; that you could suck them up then let them go. Well, that may be true for canister vacs but it's not true for uprights. The largest element I could recognize was a partial wing. I guess it was humane in that they didn't have much time to contemplate their demise.
Are the bugs pictured above actually those pesky Asian Lady Beetles?
Also known as Pumpkin Bugs?
This reminds me of one of my favorite wikis -- is Bugguide.net. You post pictures like this of insects and insect behavior and the community comments on and sorts them.
I guess I'm simple minded... I realize the little flecks are probably bug excrement, but it looks as if a few of them are dropping their spots. For some reason that really tickles me.
So here is my picture on this subject. Its pretty self-explanatory.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43214265@N00/2277842486/
this is a bit of a tangent, but i stumbled upon a reverse-ladybug yesterday...or rather, it latched onto me and i found it waddling around my arm as i was ascending an escalator. escalating? whatever. it was all black, with red dots (admittedly, the dots were a bit smudgy, but certainly they were dot-esque). in retrospect, i should have utilized my cell-phone camera~
Ugh, I hate Asian Ladybugs. A few years back our apartment was flooded with tens of thousands of them, and my roommate woke up almost every morning with new 'bites' on her body. We could never find out conclusively if she was being bitten by them, or if it was a localized allergic reaction, but she's still got some of the scars years later.
So, Mark, your first name and your brother's middle name are the same? Or you both have the same middle name and you go by your middle name? Either way, it seems odd to me. I don't know why.
@TRR (#15), Yes, his middle name, "David," is also my first name. And yes, I suppose that is a little odd. : )
Just FYI- this gallery is located inside the Herron School of Art, on the IUPUI campus in downtown Indianapolis, not at Indiana University Bloomington.
If you're near Indy, check it out!
I haven't seen any groupings yet. But I like this shot - it looks like it is rubbing it's "hands" together in contemplation of our demise.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smurphette/534594844/