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it's in today's papers....10 million on a 20 acre farm in Somersetaccording to yesterday's Express (so it must be true) we're also due an invasion of a BILLION painted lady butterflys in August. How social services are going to cope I don't know. Perhaps the government will give them jobs manning the Swine Flu Hotlines
The link above from thifasmom is acting as a boomerang site. Everytime you close it down it opens back up. Had to reboot to stop it. Got an invasion warning.
Some years ago probably nearly 30 we had a year where there were loads and loads of green fly they were everywhere clouds of them. This was followed by loads and loads of lady birds and they got so hungry they started biting people. It was not infected but it was quite a painful nip. It has been hard to see them as totally benign since then.
it's a really nice blog
Excellent photos on that blog. I haven't particularly noticed the invasion, but I expect I will now.Wasn't the last plague of ladybirds in 1977, following the hot one of '76?
there's been thousands of 7 spot ladybirds crossing the north sea, I saw loads of them on the beach on thursday. ;)
They've done a great job on my runner beans this year - appeared just in time and cleaned then up nicely.