2020 February 15 morning

 

   Libby Avis writes from Port Alberni:  We were having coffee on February 13 in Quality Foods in Qualicum and found a Two-spotted Ladybird crawling up the inside of the window. We rescued it, brought it home to photograph and let it go. We hope it will survive if it doesn’t turn cold again, but it seems very early for it to be out of hibernation. I don’t know whether it got into Quality on someone’s coat  or if it emerged from a plant or the produce section! Anyway, I think they’re fairly common in BC but it ‘s only the second time that we’ve seen one; the other one was also in Qualicum, but later in the year – June 30th 2018. The earliest date in the Invert Alert index is May 10th.

 

 

Two-spotted Ladybird Adalia bipunctata (Col,: Coccinellidae)  Libby Avis