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23-06-2011, 07:12 AM
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Ladybird seen on a grave yesterday, or has my OH call them Bishy barny bee.  |
23-06-2011, 07:25 AM
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Nice shot 
They seem to like gravestones, I remember last winter I saw several all huddled together in cracks in the stones
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23-06-2011, 12:30 PM
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Reminds me of the time, last winter when I saw loads of them huddled under a gate latch, got a cool photo at the time with these ladybirds and Ice on the gate. Just a shame it was took off my old mobile so not good quality. |
24-08-2011, 08:15 PM
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Anyone else had hundreds and hundresd of 7 spot ladybirds in the last few weeks? I thought they may be harlequins, but they are all uniform & 7 spots so I am sure they are native. Black legs not brown.
They are all crowding into nooks and crevices. Are we due for a hard winter? Do they know something we don't?
I live in the rural eastern edge of Leeds. |
24-08-2011, 08:45 PM
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I was in the Lee Valley about 2 weeks ago and while there were not hundreds of ladybirds there were certainly lots everywhere I looked.
Bishy barny bee - that is such a great name, Fengirl. Is it a particular fenland name? Do you know what bishy and barny mean?
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24-08-2011, 08:51 PM
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My daughter and future son-in -law live near Bishy Barnabee Way in Bowthorpe, Norwich. Until he met my daughter he had never heard of a ladybird only a Bishy Barnabee. |
24-08-2011, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Tringa  I was in the Lee Valley about 2 weeks ago and while there were not hundreds of ladybirds there were certainly lots everywhere I looked.
Bishy barny bee - that is such a great name, Fengirl. Is it a particular fenland name? Do you know what bishy and barny mean?
Dave | It's certainly an East Anglian name - commonly used in Norfolk. I think it has to do with Bishop Barnabas.
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25-08-2011, 07:28 AM
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Thanks for the info.
I couldn't find any links for a Bishop Barnabas, but found a suggested link on Wikipedia to a Bishop Edmund Bonner.
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