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Seven-spot Ladybird

Coccinella septempunctata

107,618Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1,499
Feb3,088
Mar10,154
Apr16,072
May12,354
Jun15,720
Jul16,510
Aug12,370
Sep8,722
Oct5,250
Nov2,383
Dec1,495

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England4,119
2Worcestershire England3,907
3Kent England3,625
4Cambridgeshire England3,406
5Lincolnshire England3,332
6Oxfordshire England2,935
7City of Edinburgh Scotland2,272
8Suffolk England2,169
9Norfolk England2,165
10Surrey England1,866
11East Riding of Yorkshire England1,636
12North Yorkshire England1,472
13Devon England1,451
14Nottinghamshire England1,313
15Northamptonshire England1,241
94,726 England7,174 Scotland3,903 Wales1,294 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
107,618
Peak month
July
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Coccinella septempunctata
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
95,912
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Coccinella
Name with authority
Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159543 · GBIF 4990191