Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, having a round shape and a red or yellow spotted shell.
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For good measure, E-beta-farnesene also attracts aphid predators such as ladybirds and wasps.
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No clouds of migrant ladybirds sent bathers shrieking from the beaches.
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Some years it's plagues of ladybirds, cloudbursts of frogs, hordes of killer bees.
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She is safe with me as one of my own ladybirds of daughters.
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His jazz CDs are transported in a crisp hessian bag patterned with ladybirds.
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CAN you explain how ladybirds get into my bedroom which is three floors up?
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They were crossed by paths well-worn by woodlice and ladybirds.
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Speaking of hops, it is said, "plenty of ladybirds, plenty of hops."
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Oh, girls, wouldn't a row of ladybirds for buttons be pretty on my waist?
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All the ladybirds seemed to have taken refuge here.
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In calmer moments I went looking for ladybirds.
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These little song sparrows must surely be ladybirds-theyare talking back in such a saucy twitter.
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My name is Miller, at your service for an adagio-but ,asto ladybirds, I cannot serve you.
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Alas for the released ladybirds of Shidzuoka!
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As in California and South Africa, ladybirds have been reared in large numbers in order to destroy scale.
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THERE is I am told by those who know about these things a lot of ladybirds around this year.