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
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World Bee Day
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Assembling the Smithsonian
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National Hummingbird Day
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International Day of the Worlds Indigenous Peoples
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Great horned owl
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Cable car station, Graubünden, Switzerland
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Where is this wintry road?
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International Sloth Day
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Daylight Saving Time
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The mountaintop of toppled gods
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In Apia Harbor for Samoan Independence Day
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Mercury in retrograde
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Happy winter solstice!
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A sea of swirling stone
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Diwali
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The eloquence of elephants
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Manatee Appreciation Day
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Tintern Abbey, Wales
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Ceremony Hall at Sweden s Icehotel
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Satellite image of sand and seaweed in the Bahamas
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Happy Lunar New Year!
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Fox kits
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Working for that cliffside view
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A red knot on the Shetland Islands, Scotland
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Spring equinox
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Val Gardena, South Tyrol, Dolomites, Italy
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The Door County Coastal Byway in Wisconsin
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To the 155th on the 155th
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Where is this gorgeous peak?
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It s Mountain Day in Japan
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