Ladybird babies are weirdos:

I knew this already though. There were a whole bunch of these on a plant on my roof because the plant had about a bazillion greenfly on it and then it’s natural for the predators to come along.

But what I did not know is the bit in between ladybird baby and ladybird grown-up. I went out on the roof the other day and those weird babies had turned into these really weird alien pods:

They’re like creepy spaceships. At one point one of them reared up on it’s furry back parts.

In response to this I made the ladybirds a letter of appreciation: