Water ladybirds escape the flood
Water Ladybirds (Anisosticta punctuate) on the entrance gate posts to RSPB Greylake nature reserve on the Somerset Levels. Normally these ladybird spend winter between leaves and in stems of reeds and grass tussocks. I assume as much of those are underwater with the floods that they have climbed up the gate post seeking out the gaps in the grain of the wood.