People, Plants, Landscapes: You say Ladybug and I say Ladybird and they say...”God’s Little Cows”. Last week a colleague told me that in Polish Ladybirds are called God’s Little Cows. I “fact checked” this claim and it’s true. They’re also called this in Gaelic, Spanish and Russian 😳. But in English there’s a religious connotation too because ‘Lady’ refers to the Virgin Mary who wore a spotty (red?) coat apparently (not a Bible scholar - forgive any inaccuracies here). Side note/tangent: this Ladybird name research led me to discover that the German expression for ‘comfort food’ is ‘grief bacon’ (“kummerspeck” literally ‘grief pork fat’). The Ladybird for comfort food is Aphid #ladybird #ladybug #godslittlecows #typeofbeetle #notabug #coleoptera #coccinellidae #predatoryinsects #beneficialinsects #theyeataphids #carrotflower #comfortfood #griefbacon #kummerspeck #germanlanguage #zeitgeist #mood