Our photo shows a single ladybug taking a winter’s nap near Tewin, England. That’s right, many species of ladybug hibernate over the winter. In Redwood Regional Park near San Francisco, this time of year is ‘ladybug season’—when hikers in the cool, damp woods may spot a large group of ladybugs—called a ‘loveliness’—huddled for warmth and safety, snoozing until spring. They’ll wake up, and get back to eating more crop-killing aphids—seems reason enough to let that loveliness of ladybugs into your yard.
How do ladybugs winter?
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
North Cascades National Park at 50
-
International Day of Human Space Flight
-
Sleep tight, little hedgehog
-
‘Ocian in view! O! The joy.’
-
Dark skies over New Mexico
-
White Desert National Park, Egypt
-
St. Paul Winter Carnival
-
Embracing the cold
-
International Sloth Day
-
Labor Day parade in 1915 Chicago
-
Groundhog Day
-
Flock together for Cousins Day
-
Solar Impulse 2 in Honolulu
-
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park, California
-
International Talk Like a Pirate Day
-
Happy Valentines Day!
-
Ancient theater of Epidaurus, Greece
-
Via Krupp, Capri, Italy
-
Kings Mountain, Chugach Mountains, Alaska
-
The Tour de France begins
-
Presidents hear the echo of history
-
Midnight sun
-
D-Day remembered
-
A giant relic in Java
-
Hohenzollern Castle near Stuttgart, Germany
-
A bird of beauty
-
Bryce Canyon National Park turns 100
-
World Bee Day
-
Ceremony Hall at Sweden s Icehotel
-
A toast to California!
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

