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Clock leddy

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(Reguidit frae Reid sodger)
Clock leddy
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cless: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Faimily: Coccinellidae
Genus: Coccinella
Species: C. septempunctata
Binomial name
Coccinella septempunctata

The clock leddy (Coccinella septempunctata) or leddy launners an reid sodgers is pairt o the faimily Coccinellidae.

Coccinellidae is smaw insects, reengin frae 1 mm tae 10 mm (0.04 tae 0.4 inch), an is for common yellae, orange, or scarlet wi smaw black spots on thair weeng kivers, wi black legs, heid an antennae. A verra lairge nummer o speshie is maistlins or alanerly black, gray, or broun an micht be difficult for non-entomologists tae recogneese as coccinellids (an, conversely, thare are mony wee clocks that are eithly mistaen as sic, like tortoise beetles).