On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 19:01:01 -0000, "Martin Sykes"
wrote:

Just found my first ladybird this year :-))
Unfortunately the first greenfly seem to have arrived a couple of weeks ago
and had already started on the roses :-(

It seems to me that this is an inevitable consequence of the nature of
the predator/prey relationship.
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Stuart Baldwin
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