Gendarme!
By Karenfrance

31 Aug, 2011
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Thank you, Lil!:))
Do you call these 'firebugs'? I'm infested with them but they don't seem to do any harm...
31 Aug, 2011
Too decorative for a stag beetle I expect.Are they only in the garden?
31 Aug, 2011
Yes, thankfully! And all over the hollyhocks, malva and blue sage...Quite often 'stuck together', if you know what I mean...
I think they just eat the seeds, though...
That's a hollyhock seedpod it's on
31 Aug, 2011
Wow!
Does Gendarme translate to POLIS!!!
31 Aug, 2011
Aye! Armed Polis! Not, 'afloat in a dirty big boat!!)' though...
(hope you get this, Scottish...otherwise I'll have to remember more Andy Stewart....)
31 Aug, 2011
that's a cracking photo K, very nice..
31 Aug, 2011
No idea what this is Karen. I don't think I've seen them before.
31 Aug, 2011
Looks like a large ladybird squashed flat lol :o)))
31 Aug, 2011
I'm sure they're not just here...!...or maybe they are...
I never came across them before...
called 'Gendarmes'...eat seeds...
31 Aug, 2011
Wow No seen ony Polis like thon here!
Looks like an African mask..its an omen!!!!!! ;)
31 Aug, 2011
Lol, Pixi think you're right.
31 Aug, 2011
Karen...a dinnae ken ony Andy Stewart...did he sing I love a lassie....?
31 Aug, 2011
Extraordinary bug! I got something similar only it's green!
1 Sep, 2011
Think so..only one I remember coz Mum had it was The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre lol she used to play it at high speed and I thought it was hilarious!
1 Sep, 2011
Haha! It does look like an African mask!
Lulu...we have green bugs too...sort of look like a shield?
...and smell really bad when in danger!
Pixi and Scottish...I was quoting the last line from that iconic (lol!) Scottish song...Cambeltown Loch, I wish you were whisky!...:)))
1 Sep, 2011
I will be nice to them in that case Karen!!
1 Sep, 2011
Hoho, Lulu...I got it on my finger once...and it wasn't nice! :))
1 Sep, 2011
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