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    The lady vanishes

    Feb 04, 2020 2 minutes

    WE moved to Spring Cottage in November 2004, shortly after the first harlequin ladybird was recorded in Britain on 19 September 2004. Ian Wright, a member of staff in the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, spotted an unusual ladybird in a pub garden in Essex and this was the first sighting of the harlequin ladybird in Britain.

    This ladybird had been

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