And why do the people in Suffolk call a ladybird "Bishop Barnaby?". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849] Reference
There are about 5,000 species of ladybugs, also known as ladybird beetles, with about 450 species in the United States, Losey said. From Wordnik.com. [NBC3 - Local News] Reference
MARIQUITA Mariquita (Spanish for 'ladybird') is the sole survivor of the. From Wordnik.com. [YBW News] Reference
The full set of ladybird police can be found here. From Wordnik.com. [Police play poker rather than fight crime. Graham Hall given a fridge magnet whilst officers deal a new hand...] Reference
Oh, the pretty little creature; a ladybird up on a cart!. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of the Soil] Reference
This is what most of the ladybird beetles look like here. From Wordnik.com. [Interesting Insects « Fairegarden] Reference
The youngest is she who will have a ladybird on her eyelid. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Fairy Book] Reference
I will have to look for the ladybird ones that you mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Marshmallows revisited..] Reference
On the other pillow is a ladybird which escaped from a dream. From Wordnik.com. [Ladybird] Reference
I think for carry-on I'll use Linnea's Samsonite ladybird bag. From Wordnik.com. [Perhaps not wise] Reference
"ladybird! ladybird! fly away home," is not out of place here. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
Examples are lacewings, ladybird beetles, and Trichogramma wasps. From Wordnik.com. [5. How plants live and grow] Reference
Is that a ladybird in the picture with the Edgeworthia chrysantha?. From Wordnik.com. [Starting Anew « Fairegarden] Reference
The ladybird touches my arm, whispers that it wants to be a tattoo. From Wordnik.com. [Ladybird] Reference
‘You feel your ladybird has crept through so many ages,’ she said. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladybird] Reference
Or insects: Does an Aphid have less of a role to play than a ladybird?. From Wordnik.com. [Putting the Cart Before the Horse] Reference
The ladybird and his rider are now snoring loudly on a pile of cushions. From Wordnik.com. [Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head] Reference
And in "Small Girl in a Crowd" the child is not unlike Clare's ladybird. From Wordnik.com. [New Light for the Old Dark by Sam Willetts] Reference
He was a fool to waste time on an exotic, expensive ladybird like Diana Lindsay. From Wordnik.com. [Dearly Beloved]
Some ladybird beetle larvae are outstanding predators, e.g. Curinus abdominalis. From Wordnik.com. [8: Plant protection and pest control] Reference
Spot the rogue ladybird But the devices really come into their own in the field. From Wordnik.com. [Handheld devices: schools prepare to track aphid menace] Reference
‘Ah, the Psaneks have had a ladybird in their bonnets for many hundred years.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladybird] Reference
Today I was so stressed that I walked past a ladybird without pointing it out to her. From Wordnik.com. [I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadna been for those pesky kids] Reference
On to others, this ladybird beetle seems to have different markings than what is expected. From Wordnik.com. [Interesting Insects « Fairegarden] Reference
I grow her a Fish-interface from my symbiote as a birthday present: it looks like a ladybird. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
No longer frumpy or honking or absurd, there I stood: in her eyes I was as lovely as a ladybird. From Wordnik.com. [acrostiche - French Word-A-Day] Reference
His beer was untouched and a ladybird was mounting an unsupported expedition across the tabletop. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
What they did was to bring from Australia a different visitor, the dainty bug called the ladybird. From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
A set of four features a ladybird, butterfly, bee and dragonfly. From Wordnik.com. Reference
However, the ladybird disdained the insect, and flew away among the flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
The harlequin ladybird is a voracious consumer of green fly and other aphids. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Our common name is ladybird, my own name is Alois, I am a poet by profession. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Maya the Bee] Reference
In it, the princess warns her lover that she will have a ladybird over her right eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology] Reference
Larger and spottier than native species they feed on other ladybird lava and caterpillars. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
We have only to stretch out our ten digits and a ladybird will light on every one of them!. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
So lie still in your nest, ladybird, and don't bother your pretty head about bread sponges. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Country Sky] Reference
They may be ladybugs (ladybird beetles) of some sort, but I don't think so based on the coloring. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
And of course, everyone knows that ladybeetles (ladybird beetles / ladybugs) are useful predators. From Wordnik.com. [Andrea's Buzzing About:] Reference
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