ladybirdsWildlife experts have discovered four rare species of beetle living in the back garden of former Beatle John Lennon’s childhood Liverpool home.

A survey by the National Trust, which owns the house, found wasp beetles and three types of ladybird beetle living in the garden of the house, known as Mendips, where Lennon lived with his aunt and uncle from the mid 1940s to the early 1960s. Ecologists also found wood mice and several frogs.

Lennon composed many of his early songs while living in the house and ecologist Peter Brash says the budding songwriter may well have drawn on his natural surrounding for inspiration.

‘We can only speculate on the wildlife that would have occupied the garden in the 1950s when John Lennon lived with his aunt and uncle,” Brash said.

“But it’s clear from the lush green surroundings of the Woolton area of Liverpool that bird song and butterflies would have been an everyday part of his life.”

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