The mark
The ladybug
She does not have a name yet. The portrait is a crate-label beetle among zinnias and citrus blossom, painted the way a Florida crate remembers a harvest. The home page keeps a cut of the same mark beside the name Orlando Ladybug. The insect in a real yard is named from UF/IFAS — Cycloneda, Hippodamia, Harmonia — not from this drawing.
The portrait
Zinnias and citrus blossom are Central Florida crate subjects. The beetle is painted as a hunter on that still life, oval and bright, the way a crate label remembers a harvest. Until she is named, the journal prints “the ladybug.”
How to read it
A drawing can be red with spots and still be the wrong species in a photograph. Harmonia axyridis comes in many color morphs and often shows a dark M or W on the pronotum. Cycloneda sanguinea is often spotless. Hippodamia convergens wears two pale lines that meet. This portrait is chrome for the journal, not an identification plate.
The insect in the yard
The textbook starts at learn: family, four stages, then the Florida names. Printable sheets and the four-stage book sit on the kids page. The live papers — EENY-170, ENY-822, EENY-204 — sit on guides. Name the hunter from those pages, then come back to the drawing as art.