Topic: Ladybirds

[honeybee]

And not forgetting all of those lovely teenage boys that caught my eye at the time  ;)  ;D

[kitty]

god yes...
*sigh*
i've still got the teenage boy that caught my eye...once he caught it,i stopped throwing it at the other lads!

we're still together after 30-odd years...saving two other people i always say! ;D ;D

[honeybee]

Awwwww from ladybirds to lovebirds all in one thread  ;D

[Roy Bham UK]

OK ::) so I think it may have been 1976 but anyway whilst up the lottie today I did a little weeding around the lettuce patch and spotted a ladybird ;D then carried on weeding and spotted two more how pleased was I? (or I was) then carried on even more as you do, then spotted two more :-[ :-X but they were togevver :-[ :-X so I quietly left the patch hoping they never noticed me 8) ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

It was 1976 when the ladybirds went mad; that was the year we had six weeks without rain, and day after day over 80. They hibernated in their thousands and there were still masses the following spring.

[honeybee]

The year of the drought, i remember we used to get up in the mornings and find a dead bird in the garden almost every day :'(

That was also the year that i got sunstroke  ::)

[kitty]

soooooooo.....you found the dead bird i brought you everymorning ?
and what did you do you ingrate?
threw it in the bin!
thats why i dont bring you dead birds anymore! ;)
roy!
that was kind of you!
they do need privacy to...speed date..... ;D
1976-hot hot hot!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Val]

Sorry to interept the remernisings but was it one of those foreign ladybirds eating one of the natives? or maybe they were just mating?...I want to know what was going on now....err we also had plagues of greenfly one year...can't remember exactly when, think it was the 80's too.

[kitty]

val......i shalltake you on one side and explain the difference between being eaten alive and mating..... ;) ;D

[Val]

..Well after all these years, I didn't know there was a difference.....still you live and learn...maybe its just the blokes I've met.. ;D

[honeybee]

There is nothing to add to that

;D  ;D  ;D  ;D

[bunnycat]

Not even from me, and that's saying something :o

[Val]

No thats what I've been saying for years.....

[kitty]

......dont let bitterness creep in girls..... ;) ;D

[Roy Bham UK]

;D lets put it this way Val the one behind appeared to be pushing the one in front :o maybe it needed uplifting ??? what would I know :-[

[RobinOfTheHood]

I remember that too being the old codger that i am ;D

We were in Great Yarmouth on our holidays and  even the pavements were filled with them, as you walked you could hear this crunching sound and my mum kept on making us clean them off our shoes.

How do i word this  :-\  How does the kit work kitty?  ;D

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Well I was there the week before and the greenfly had invaded then.

The ladybirds came that Saturday evening.....

[honeybee]

Ahhh so apparently there was a choice of wild life depending on which week you went then  ;D

[kitty]

greenfly week was cut-price-if you paid more you got colourful ladybirds..... ;)




roy..

lets put it this way Val the one behind appeared to be pushing the one in front

think you'll find the one in front is blind and the other one is a guide ladybird......
and stop watchin 'em willya??? ::)

[RSJK]

I think the answer to your question maybe ......they were hibernating and just waking up, sounds daft but could be right.

R B 1976 I was market gardening and I seem to remember that it was a lot longer than 6 weeks we went without rain. Never had a suntan so good as the one I had then and knowing now what I now know about skin cancer I may have kept myself covered up more.
                                                         8) 8)

[Robert_Brenchley]

You could well be right; I read 'six weeks' somewhere quite recently, that was why it was in my mind. But I do remember that when I initially saw the figure I was surprised.