Love bug - A Pic a Day in May #11

This is une coccinelle (ladybug). It was sunning itself on a leaf one recent morning, and it wasn't the only one. This seems to be a good year for these helpful little beetles. They're good for the garden.

This is not Herbie. That's the sun reflected in its shell.

Do you remember the series of movies in the late 1960s and 1970s (I think they were made by Disney) about Herbie the Love Bug? That wacky Volkswagen beetle with a mind of its own? Well, in France, those movies are on television frequently. The first film, "The Love Bug" is called  "Un Amour de Coccinelle." The third film, "Herbie goes to Monte Carlo," is called "La Coccinelle à Monte-Carlo."