{"id":8946,"date":"2024-09-02T15:57:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T15:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8946"},"modified":"2024-09-02T15:57:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T15:57:57","slug":"aphids-and-ladybirds-on-lupin-flowers-in-uv-fluorescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8946","title":{"rendered":"Aphids and Ladybirds on Lupin Flowers in UV Fluorescence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Searching our garden one evening using my Ultra Violet torch a found this lupin flower where ladybirds had been making a feast of the aphids – my wife tells me the plant was covered in aphids until the ladybirds arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below I show the somewhat messy flower in both daylight flash and UV fluorescence using the comparison slider. First is sample 1 – note how much more visible the aphids are under the UV lighting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aphids and ladybirds on lupin flowers sample 1. Daylight flash<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Aphids and ladybirds on lupin flowers sample 1. UV Fluorescence<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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And sample 2 on a different stem of the plant. Again, the UV fluorescence makes the aphids stand out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aphids on lupin flowers sample 2. Daylight flash<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Aphids on lupin flowers sample 2. UV Fluorescence<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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If you look closely you can see a small aphid at the end of a larger aphid. I suspect this is the ‘mother’ giving birth to the live young. Not only that, I read that the young are born pregnant. No wonder they are such prolific breeders. Below is an enlargement of the daylight image showing the ‘mother’ aphid:<\/p>\n\n\n

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An enlargement showing what is possibly the mother and baby aphid on the lupin stem<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

It’s amazing what you can see in the garden…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Searching our garden one evening using my Ultra Violet torch a found this lupin flower where ladybirds had been making a feast of the aphids – my wife tells me the plant was covered in aphids until the ladybirds arrived. Below I show the somewhat messy flower in both daylight flash and UV fluorescence using … Continue reading “Aphids and Ladybirds on Lupin Flowers in UV Fluorescence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,141,26,129,52,93,22,24,3,94,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up","category-comparison-slider","category-environment","category-fluorescence","category-garden","category-insects","category-macro","category-nature","category-photography","category-staffordshire","category-ultra-violet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8955,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8946\/revisions\/8955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}