"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/ladybirds.html#harlequin

Which shows different stages in development and I think is much more
helpful.


On a point of taxonomical correctness, how would one pronounce the botanical
name of the 4-spot Pine ladybird "Exochomus 4-pustulatus" ?

If you were a Latin scholar I guess it would be "Exochomus
quattuor-pustulatus"

R.