On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:26:25 +0100, Janet Baraclough..
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~ On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:22:29 +0100, Troy wrote:
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~ 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.
~
We all remarked on it at the allotments last week. You could barely
step anywhere without risking stepping on one - and they were all the
big seven-spot ones! I haven't seen one of the tiny two-spots for some
time.


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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