Insect Photography

Welcome to my Insect Photoblog. Here you can find various macro photography shots of the insects in my garden at home in Brisbane, Australia as well as from around the local area and further abroad. Bugs, grasshoppers, flies, beetles, dragonflies, butterflies, cockroaches, phasmids and more. The odd spider may also manage to sneak its way into this blog, perhaps I should call it the Invertebrate Photoblog instead. Use the search box below right to search for your favourite insect.

Saturday 4 February 2012

28 Spotted Ladybird Epilachna vigintioctopunctata

Common Names: 28 Spotted Potato Ladybird, 28 Spotted Ladybug
Species: Epilachna vigintioctopunctata
Family: COCCINELLIDAE

The 28 Spotted Ladybird unlike most ladybird species feeds on leaves in both its adult and larval stages. The one in this photo has just started to chew its way through this leaf.