Seven-Spot Ladybird — Naturalist Field Plate | Printable Entomology Wall Artodukt

Seven-Spot Ladybird · Coccinella septempunctata

A museum-quality naturalist print of the Seven-Spot Ladybird, illustrated in the tradition of vintage entomological field guides — with accurate taxonomy, habitat, and true-to-life detail. Researched from trusted sources and composed with care.

Every Ashborn plate is built the way a naturalist would have wanted it: the correct order, family, genus and species; a faithful range map; and the details that reward a closer look — the domed scarlet wing cases, the three black spots on each side, the seventh shared across the centre, the pale markings behind the head, and the unmistakable alligator-shaped larva.

Both the adult beetle and its larva are skilled aphid hunters, making this familiar garden visitor one of nature’s most effective forms of pest control. Its bright red colouring is not decorative but defensive — a warning to potential predators. When threatened, the ladybird can release bitter, yellow alkaloid-rich droplets from its leg joints, a remarkable defence known as reflex bleeding.

What you receive

· High-resolution PDF (print-ready, CMYK)
· High-resolution JPEG
· Ashborn Printing Guide (PDF)
· 3:4 ratio — prints beautifully from 6×8 in to gallery size

Perfect for the gardener, the entomologist, or the nature lover — a natural fit for a kitchen, a study, or a garden room, and designed to hang alongside the other plates in the Ashborn collection.

This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Frames and room images shown are for presentation purposes only.