While out walking with my daughter a fortnight ago I spied a ladybird sat on top of a fence post so pointing it out we both took a closer look only to meet this little fellow sat on the other side of the post.

I have never seen anything like it before????????

Its also a ladybird, just the larval stage.

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Beltin little beastie but didn’t half give me the eeby geebies.


At almost a foot long I thought it was some man eating death beetle from darkest Peru......

Well it was at least 10mm..........

Thinking about it the thing looked a bit lifeless and almost stuffed.

I suppose it could have been the empty case from the ladybird now sat on top of the post.

Evil looking beasts

They pupate like a butterfly and emerge by splitting the back so this mammoth looks like its just about to hunker down and begin its metamorphosis.

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Never seen the larva before. Glad they are small

Pictures

Yea sorry about that.

That’s why we didn’t appear in the photo.