A seldom seen Ladybird (Ladybug)

This is the kidney-spot ladybird, Chilocorus renipustulatus.
It is a small (4mm) species of ladybird found in Europe, Asia, and North Africa.


Being so small and predominantly black, it probablly goes unnoticed most of the time.  I don't recall ever seeing one before.  Very few of you blippers do either as a search of all blips shows just two from the UK, and one from Finand.  A related species, Chilocorus stigma, found in North America has been blipped from there just four times.


I found it on the bark of a tree in deciduous woodland.  The trees were mosty birch with a few willow, beech and oak.  I didn't note which it was on at the time.

I have just checked the nature logging website iRecord and it shows 16 records for this species in Fife in the last 3 years.