Thank You Milady

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Ladybugs also called ladybirds and lady beetles belong to the family Coccinellidae.

There are about 5,000 different species of ladybugs in the world.

They live all over the world, except in Antarctica and the far northern regions of North America, Europe and Asia.

The natural habitat for ladybugs is areas of dense vegetation, such as forests, meadows, weed patches and gardens.

The average lifespan of a ladybug is 2 to 3 years.

They range from 0.0315 to 0.708 inches.

They are commonly red, orange, or yellow with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, heads and antennae.

As well as the usual colors, some ladybug species are black, white, gray, brown, pink and blue. Also, some species can have stripes, or no markings at all.

A ladybug has two eyes but it doesn’t see very well. Ladybugs can only see the difference between dark and light.

The antenna is what helps a ladybug smell, taste, and feel its way around.

The six short little legs of a ladybug help it to walk, but they do more than that. The feet of a ladybug help it smell.

Ladybugs have two pairs of wings, but only one pair is used to fly. The front wings are strong and protect the back wings. A ladybug’s rear or back wings are its flying wings.

A ladybug beats its wings about 5100 times a minute or about 85 beats a second when it flies.

Scientists believed that anything over 7 feet was a long-distance flight for a ladybug – but the new data shows they can actually travel up to74 miles in a single flight. A detailed study has shown the creatures traveling at heights in excess of 3,600 feet and reaching speeds of 37 miles per hour.

As a cold-blooded species, ladybugs mainly are diurnal, utilizing as much sunlight as possible for feeding and mating.

Ladybugs in temperate areas usually hibernate through the winter. Thousands of ladybugs may gather in the same location, taking advantage of the collective warmth of a colony.

Ladybug communicate with each other mainly through chemical signals (pheremones).

Their distinctive spots and attractive colors are meant to make them unappealing to predators. When threatened, the bugs will secrete an oily, foul-tasting fluid from joints in their legs. They may also play dead.

Birds are ladybugs’ main predators, but they also fall victim to frogs, wasps, spiders, and dragonflies.

Ladybugs eat aphids, cabbage moths, mites and other tiny insects. Because of their appetite for plant-eating pests, ladybugs are a beneficial component for any garden and act as a natural pesticide.

Four stages exist in the ladybug life cycle – a process known as complete metamorphosis. As ladybugs feast on aphids and other plant-eating insects, following sexual mating, females deposit up to 300 fertilized eggs among these plants. After 2 to 5 days, newly hatched larvae have an immediate feeding source for the 3 weeks they remain in this stage. After bulking up on aphids, larvae enter a resting stage as pupae. Following a week of this growth process, the adult ladybug emerges, fully formed and ready to keep eating.

One ladybug can eat up to5,000 insects in its lifetime!

The term “lady” refers to the Virgin Mary. According to legend, crops in Europe during the Middle Ages were plagued by pests, and farmers began praying to the blessed Lady Mary. Ladybugs then appeared in the fields, miraculously saving the crops, causing the farmers to call them lady beetles.

Ladybugs aren’t true bugs – they’re beetles, as evidenced by their hard shells that hide a set of delicate wings.

A common myth is that the number of spots on the insect’s back indicates its age.

Many cultures consider ladybugs lucky and have nursery rhymes or local names for the insects that reflect this.

Ladybugs are, and have been for very many years, an insect of interest and favorite for children.

NASA sent a few ladybugs into space with aphids to see how aphids would escape in zero gravity.

Ladybugs are the official state insect of Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee.

The bold colors and simple shapes have led to use as a logo for a wide range of organizations and companies.

Source: JustFunFacts

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    2. Currently 17° & sunny here after snowy day yesterday. 3” waiting for me & the snow blower. Can’t complain, yesterday we had zero snow cover…not bad for mid February. Tomorrow 37° forecast

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        1. Good Morning, Miss Pat! I’ve been working in the house and yard, unloading the minivan, bit by bit – trying to get things in order.
          Also trying to revive spiritually and emotionally. I’ve got a long list of things to do – things I’ve procrastinated on – some for decades. I need GOD to put motivation and unction into my soul, mind and body.

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  14. called it, didn’t I? not that it was a stretch…

    scott467
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    Coyote
    February 17, 2023 02:03

    From OT:

    Norfolk Southern Says they “Accidentally” Asked East Palestine Residents to Sign Legal Waivers as Condition of Contamination Tests
    February 16, 2023

    “When Ohio Senator JD Vance was briefing the press earlier today, he was asked about East Palestine residents being required to sign indemnity waivers, releasing Norfolk Southern Railway from legal liability, as a requirement of having their water/air tests conducted on their property.

    Senator Vance said he talked to a resident about it, then reviewed the contract and confirmed the indemnity demand. Vance then immediately called Norfolk Southern Railroad officials and asked them about it. According to Vance, the response from Norfolk Southern Railway was that the liability waiver was accidentally presented.”

    ____________

    Who among us hasn’t accidentally presented a liability waiver after committing an environmental disaster?

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    1. How a town in Missouri was destroyed by Dioxin 40 years ago. Possible CDC coverup then; how long did it take to notify the residents?
      The entire town was relocated. From the EPA website

      Meryl Nass
      10 hr ago
      A Town, a Flood, and Superfund: Looking Back at the Times Beach Disaster Nearly 40 Years Later
      https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later

      https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-a-town-in-missouri-was-destroyed

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  23. LOVE THE 🐞OPEN!

    When I was a teenager – 🐞Ladybug dresses and blouses were a big deal. They had Peter Pan collars, pintucks and were mostly small print florals in pretty colors. They came with cute straight pins on the collars with a 🐞head. I may still have one of the pins.

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  26. WAR, FAMINE and DISEASE: Appeal Filed in Our Ninth Circuit Federal Grand Jury COVID-19 Case, Trajectory Toward World War III, COVID-19 Developments and New Marburg “Pandemic” Threat

    Political Moonshine
    40 min ago

    EXCERPT: “NINTH CIRCUIT CASE ALLEGING COVID-19 IS ENTERPRISE FRAUD
    Our case filed in the Ninth Circuit is centered on our First Amendment right to petition a federal grand jury so that we may present to it a cogent, arduously evidenced and complete case for the purpose of the grand jury conducting its own judicially independent investigation. The case alleges that the current and former directors of Centers of Disease Control, the current and former secretaries of Health and Human Services and the director of the National Vital Statistics System committed egregious levels of enterprise fraud to manufacture a fraudulent COVID-19 “pandemic” out of thin air. This occurred by propagating and leveraging fraudulently aggregated infection and mortality data that was falsely attributed to COVID-19.

    https://politicalmoonshine.substack.com/p/war-famine-and-disease-appeal-filed

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  28. East Palestine: Two Massive Ecodisasters, Not One. Where Did the Plume of Toxic Combustion Products Go, and Where Did They Settle? What Combustion Products Were Spread Across the States? Governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania now saying it was obviously the wrong decision to burn off the chemicals. But they are blaming the railroad company.

    James Lyons-Weiler
    6 min ago

    You won’t be surprised that the toxicological profiles of the chemicals that spilled and their combustion products are not all known. This is not merely a local disaster by any measure.

    The mass of train cars that derailed, and the intentional burning of chemicals released in pits in East Palestine, Ohio are the nation’s greatest ecodisaster to date. But it was two disasters, not one. The train cars were carrying 1 million pounds of vinyl chloride, propylene glycol, butyl acrylate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylhexyl acrylate, isobutylene, and benzene. The EPA has confirmed that many of these chemicals have entered the Ohio River basin, which is home to 25 million people, which is easily a regional ecodisaster. Although their preliminary report is no unsafe levels, locals have reported dead animals, from birds on power lines to dead fish floating in local tributaries. Locals have reported having to throw out personal belongings due to the intense chemical smell that lingers.
    ———–
    Only one of the five cars carrying vinyl chloride had breached; the others were intentionally breached, and their contents drained into pits and set ablaze. The water pollution is just the beginning. The plume of combustion products from the demolition made has created a second regional ecodisaster. Here I show according to NOAA where it went and explore the combustion products that result.”

    https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/east-palestine-two-massive-ecodisasters

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  29. so our first stop was Joann’s fabric. hubby stayed in the jeep and told me to take as long as i wanted to. i shopped and browsed for almost 3/4 of an hour! when i checked out, the clerk was genuinely sad that i paid with cash (too bad) and I brought my own bags (because it’s NY and they charge you for bags there).
    Next we went to Hobby Lobby. I checked the prices for felt at Joanns–because they advertised it was ON SALE. But I bought felt at Hobby Lobby–who’s REGULAR pricing was lower than Joann’s sale prices.

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    1. from there we went to the mall to grab a bite for lunch. there must have been a kids’ movie playing at the cineplex because the mall was full of little ones–sweet, giggling, little ones. what a joy it was too see the mall bustling with people again. A lot of the stores are gone though.
      then we headed home.

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      1. when they have sales–and you know base prices-you can get good deals. but you have to know your prices.
        in their sales ad, they claimed their embroidery floss was TOO LOW to put in the ad. so i looked at that too…it was 45 cents a skein…walmart has better prices everyday…so i skipped that too.
        but the fabric selection was good and the sales prices were good–plus today there was coupon for 20% off everything–including sales prices…so it was worth the trip.

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  33. anyone see this yet???

    Malagator
    February 17, 2023 3:19 pm

    A friend sent me a snap shot of a pic just now with breaking news. Says there is a 4 alarm fire at a chemical plant and a shelter in place is out.

    Name of the company on fire is Carus Chemical La Salle, Illinois.

    Anyone else hearing about this?

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  38. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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