Lady birds

We always seem to get an influx in early Spring. However, they then seem to disappear and are nowhere to be seen once the greenfly come out!

I haven't seen any yet, up North, and it's pretty cold today.

dd has got them in her letterbox again...up North. they must have been over 100 last year hiding in the letterbox..we kept finding them in the hallway.

Bishy Barnabies you mean ??

The big kids were here for Mother’s Day and collected quite a few , as they are alive and well and living in Norfolk !?

I haven't seen a single one yet this year. I hope their appearance will coincide with the aphids.

They have been much in evidence here, both outside and inside (!) the house. They seem to like my camellia flowers at the moment, but I am hoping they will move on to the plum tree once the fruit starts setting like they did last year, and eat the aphids. There are some harlequin ladybirds about too.

Lots of them here in Manchester, also inside as well as outside the house.

Lots of them on Friday last in teesside

Lots in my garden also red admiral butterfly's, wonderful.

Are they the British ladybird or those stinky foreign ones that can carry syphilis .They have more spots than our British ones apparently and they are quickly depleting our own . October 2017 we had swarms of them living in our caravan window seals and the stench was vile. You have to kill them not move them on to some place else.

I'm in Devon, saw just one this week.

My son had own army of them. Sign of good luck, I believe

I've been "looking after" a couple that were on my bedroom windowsill.
Until I decided to gently encourage them out the window.
They were as dead as a crispy dead thing and from last year. Probably fallen out of the curtains.