Robert wrote:

I noticed a good number of these insects in my bushes today, at first I
thought they were ladybugs and they may be but they don't quite match the
various types of ladybugs I've been able to find on the web.

http://www.woozy.com/gardening/DSCN2967.jpg
http://www.woozy.com/gardening/DSCN2969.jpg
http://www.woozy.com/gardening/DSCN2973.jpg

I don't think it's a ladybeetle at all. Let me try to track it down.

--
Susan Hogarth
Suggested reading for 25 May, 2004:
The Demand for Order and the Birth of Modern Policing
http://monthlyreview.org/1203williams.htm
"If policing was not in its inception a totalitarian pursuit, the modern
development of the institution has at least been a major step in that
direction."