Photo of the Day 14
Albany, California, Date Unknown
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson
"Prized for farmers for their war on pests and by children for their delicate beauty, the beetles were known to Englishmen in the Middle Ages as ladybirds, creatures of Our Lady. The French called them bêtes de la Vierge, 'animals of the Virgin.'"
"Prized for farmers for their war on pests and by children for their delicate beauty, the beetles were known to Englishmen in the Middle Ages as ladybirds, creatures of Our Lady. The French called them bêtes de la Vierge, 'animals of the Virgin.'"
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Following the Ladybug Home," April 1970, National Geographic magazine)
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