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ADYBIRDS INCLUDE SOME OF OUR MOST colourful and abundant beetles, but people are often). Many are named after their number of spots, though names can be misleading. The two-spot ladybird can boast as many as 16 spots. You may well have the species in your garden or local park: it’s frequent in urban and suburban areas. Consider yourself lucky if you do, as it is every gardener’s friend, a voracious predator of ‘pest’ aphids such as greenflies.