Ladybugs are such delightful little creatures! I think we all loved them as kids They seem like gentle, peaceful garden dwellers. Did you know that they are actually beetles? It seems many have been inspired to write verse about them.

Perhaps you learned this little verse as a kid (not exactly the way I learned it but very close):

Ladybug, Ladybug Fly Away Home Nursery Rhyme

Ladybug! Ladybug!
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire.
And your children all gone.

All except one,
And that's little Ann,
For she crept under
The frying pan.


A little verse about ladybugs that I found on the Internet:

A small speckled visitor
Wearing a crimson cape
Brighter than a cherry
Smaller than a grape
A polka-dotted someone
Walking on my wall
A black-hooded lady
In a scarlet shawl.
-- ~Joan Walsh Anglund