Ladybird Beetles
/This time of year, the ladybird beetles (we frequently call them lady bugs…but they aren’t true bugs…they are beetles!) seem to appear in my office on warm sunny day. They don’t last long because there is not food for them in the house….and it is too cold for them outside. At one time recently I watched three of them crawling around on the window facing and walls. These are one of the few insects I tolerate in my house since they feed on pests during the growing season. There are always just a few; if the season is progressed far enough to be warm overnight, I take them outside…if not I just let them stay to live out the rest of their time in the house.
I decided to experiment with the iPad as a light table and a jeweler’s loupe to photograph one.
It didn’t work too well because there was not enough light coming through the sides of the loupe.
I switched to the clip-on macro lens for my phone and liked the results better.
