Gendarme!

Beautiful Karen!

Thank you, Lil!:))
Do you call these 'firebugs'? I'm infested with them but they don't seem to do any harm...

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

Wow!
Does Gendarme translate to POLIS!!!

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....)

that's a cracking photo K, very nice..

No idea what this is Karen. I don't think I've seen them before.

Looks like a large ladybird squashed flat lol :o)))

I'm sure they're not just here...!...or maybe they are...

I never came across them before...
called 'Gendarmes'...eat seeds...

Wow No seen ony Polis like thon here!
Looks like an African mask..its an omen!!!!!! ;)

Lol, Pixi think you're right.

Karen...a dinnae ken ony Andy Stewart...did he sing I love a lassie....?

Extraordinary bug! I got something similar only it's green!

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!

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!...:)))

I will be nice to them in that case Karen!!

Hoho, Lulu...I got it on my finger once...and it wasn't nice! :))