Beetle: 10-spot ladybird (Adult)
Adalia 10-punctata
Can be very variable. Commonly with faded brownish ground colours and a variable number (4-10) of small or large spots. Reddish-orange ground colours occur sparingly, and fused- or chequered-spot forms such as decempustulata and annulata are present but uncommon. The melanic (dark) form, with two backwardly directed orange spots on a black ground, has been encountered once, on willow at Colin Glen near Belfast.
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