What a strange children's rhyme that is. Strikes me as a little bizarre. Wikipedia has a page discussing it, which seems to come down to ladybirds being regarded as lucky and/or it being unlucky to kill one (much like killing spiders is supposed to bring rain).
Anyhow, ladybirds seem to be one of the few creepy-crawlies that don't gross people out in one way or another. I've always liked them :-) Here's one crawling over the yarrow flowers near where I took a similar picture.
Ladybird, ladybird
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