Saturday, March 17, 2012

Lion of the Macro Plains

Adorable little creature but not if you're an aphid!

Yippee! warmer weather forecast from tomorrow, but for the moment it's still wet, cold and miserable : (  So going through some past photos of previous springs and this came up. These ladybirds - 'tentomushi' in Japanese - always look so pretty, but in reality they are voracious hunters. They eat aphids, sometimes thousands in a day, and hence the title I've given this. Lions of the Macro Plains ; )

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