Mark McCaughrean on Nostr: But none of those are new species for this year, so I have to go back to yesterday to ...

But none of those are new species for this year, so I have to go back to yesterday to keep the list ticking over.

This a melanistic form of a common garden friend, the two-spot ladybird (Adalia bipunctata; 🇩🇪 Zweipunkt-Marienkäfer): normally they're red with black spots, but sometimes the colours are inverted.

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