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Lady Bug Lady Bug Fly Away Home Mystery Cache

Hidden : 1/8/2019
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Lady Bug Lady Bug

This traditional verse relates to Ladybugs or Ladybirds, brightly colored insects commonly viewed as lucky. The English version has been dated to at least 1744, when it appeared in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Songbook.

A common variation is from Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall point & click game.

Also, in the 1963 movie Ladybug Ladybug, staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.

The following is from an article in the Los Angelas Times.

June 24th of 2019 saw a strange sight. At first glance, it looks like a rain cloud. But in reality, the massive blob showing up Tuesday evening on the National Weather Service’s radar in San Diego County was just a lot of ladybugs. Joe Dandrea, a meteorologist with NWS San Diego, said from the radar, the ladybug bloom appears to be about 80 miles by 80 miles, but the ladybugs aren’t in a concentrated mass that size. Rather, they’re spread throughout the sky, flying at between 5,000 and 9,000 feet, with the most concentrated mass about 10 miles wide. After seeing it on the radar, Dandrea called a spotter near Wrightwood in the San Bernardino Mountains to ask what they were seeing. “I don’t think they’re dense like a cloud,” Dandrea said. “The observer there said you could see little specks flying by.”
California is home to about 200 species of ladybugs, including the convergent lady beetle, according to the University of California Integrated Pest Management Program. In early spring, after temperatures reach 65 degrees, adult convergent lady beetles mate and migrate from the Sierra Nevada to valley areas where they eat aphids and lay eggs. In the early summer, once the aphid numbers decline, beetles become hungry and migrate to higher elevations, according to the UC program.

Ladybugs, also called lady beetles, can be a nuisance if they move into your house, but as long as they stay outdoors, these insects are friends, not foes. They eat garden pests like aphids and mites. A single adult ladybug can eat more than 50 aphids in a single day, and some may consume as many as 5,000 aphids in their lifetime. Ladybugs don't just eat aphids, but also eat fruit flies, thrips, mites, and other plant damaging insects, so they’re good to have around.

The picture below is of Charlote Ann.

Sweet Charlote Ann won't be found under any frying pan but you can find her by solving the puzzle.

 

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