Acrylic on canvas. Who doesn’t love a ladybird 😊beetle, bug . This cutie pie on her big white daisy petals is a cheerful addition to play areas or nursey as a smooth cotton rag giclee print or canvas.

Did you hear the rhyme about the ladybird, ladybeetle, ladybug? I think almost everyone has. I always found it difficult to sing the bit about her house on fire and the children being gone. So like so many songs I sing, I changed the words up for a more loveable feel. Do you do that too?

I always softly blew her away home if she landed on me,

Fun fact: the rhyme Ladybird Ladybird, came about its thought in 16th century Britain. Where hops were an important crop. Lady beetles visited the hops vines and laid their eggs there because the aphids were abundant. Both adults and larvae ate aphids. In autumn, farmers burned the hops fields off. The adult beetles could fly away, but any larvae still there were doomed……..Not sure hoe Anne came into it under the frying pan though!

🎶Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children will burn.

All accept one and her name is Anne, because she hid under the baking pan🎶

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