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On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:22:29 +0100, Troy wrote:

Never seen so many before - they're everywhere. Anyone else noticed this or
are they just in my garden :-)

I've had a fair few already - I thought that they may have been
brought by the plethora of leaves floating around from last autumn and
also the infestations of insecty things brought by last summer's heat.

I was thinking just the same thing while weeding the other
day..ladybirds everywhere.

Janet (Isle of Arran)