<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981295383394913411</id><updated>2011-04-21T13:49:56.960-07:00</updated><category term='Lady bugs'/><title type='text'>Lady bugs need a home!</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ladybugneedahome.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7981295383394913411/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ladybugneedahome.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>John&amp;#39;s Arts &amp;amp; Crafts</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13197685316866887521</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='18' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8pacIll7VGg/SLIMhaCDQnI/AAAAAAAAAD4/3qHIQMfNPBo/S220/Party%2520Ducksmall.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7981295383394913411.post-3284213552415089842</id><published>2008-08-21T08:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-02T06:26:00.277-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lady bugs'/><title type='text'>                        Lady bugs need a home!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/johnsartsandcrafts.blogspot.com?sub=tr_embed_t_js" class="tr_embed_arg_blog"&gt;Blog Information&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8pacIll7VGg/SUFzU9OUVLI/AAAAAAAAAFw/J8F1Fpo0UEM/s1600-h/Treewithladybugssmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 146px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8pacIll7VGg/SUFzU9OUVLI/AAAAAAAAAFw/J8F1Fpo0UEM/s200/Treewithladybugssmall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278627042124125362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zimbio.com/member/Laisseraller"&gt; &lt;img alt="My Zimbio" title="My Zimbio" src="http://www.zimbio.com/images/badges/badgeBlue.png?u=Laisseraller" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;a style="margin-top:2px; display:block; font-size:11px; padding-left:10px; color:#244366;" href="http://www.zimbio.com"&gt; Top Stories &lt;/a&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- START OF FASTSUBMIT LINK --&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gobblerhosting.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gobblerhosting.com/hitcounter/sample.php?page=got700billion.blogspot.com/&amp;digit=digits/5/&amp;reloads=0" alt="Website Hosting" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gobblerhosting.com" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-size: 9px; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000"&gt;Website Hosting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.evrsoft.com/fastsubmit/"&gt;&lt;img width="114" height="41" src="http://www.evrsoft.com/submitnow.gif" alt="Free Search Engine Submission" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.evrsoft.com/fastsubmit/" target="_blank"&gt;Free Search Engine Submission&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- END OF FASTSUBMIT LINK --&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/johnsartsandcrafts.blogspot.com?sub=tr_embed_t_js" class="tr_embed_arg_blog"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.webcrawler.com/webcrawler300/ws/index/rfcp=Other/rfcid=999915/_iceUrlFlag=11?_IceUrl=true" style="font-family:Verdana;font-weight:bold;font-size:12px;"&gt;Search the Web with WebCrawler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;align="right"&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;A&lt;/strong&gt; recent comment about Ladybugs from a Master Gardener “One common control we all recognize is the use of lady beetles to feed on aphids. 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