I posted a webm a while back of a bunch of these "hatching" from their cocoons. I'd repost it but Wauf/nel no longer allows incognito users to upload files, which is fricking silly. Anonymous my left two nuts.
Lemme see if I can find it in the archive.
>mom tells me she spent all afternoon killing these weird black and red bugs all over her plants one sunday >ask if they looked like pic related >she literally started crying when I said they were baby lady bugs
They're weirdly attracted to my car. Doesn't matter what time of day or where I park the car, if it's dragonfly season, there will always be at least one hovering around the bonnet/hood when I go out to it. Not a complaint since they're nifty little critters, just something I've noticed.
probably mistakes the reflection of your car hood for water, it happens to a lot of insects living in or close to ponds. water beetles might also land on cars when they fly around in search for a new place
Ladybugs are noxious pests. They're stinkbugs, first of all, and second of all their larva invest vegetables like cucumbers and tomatoes. Make sure to kill them whenever possible.
>GOAT of all insects
whoever made this image and everyone who shares it (including OP) needs to lose internet access for 5 years minimum, drink bleach maximum
I've seen a few of these guys around my place the last year or so, one got into my little greenhouse and it sounded like some sort of ferocious hornet. I've seen hummingbird mimics as well, crazy how convincing they can be.
They also eat many pest insects that destroy crops (such as aphids). Many people say they bite, but the biting ones are a different species known as Asian ladybeetles, which also bite crops. The real ladybugs don't bite at all.
They also do secrete that yellow shit on you, but only cause they don't really like being handled, so they secrete it as a defense mechanism. I mean, I'd also piss myself if a giant godzilla-sized bipedal animal grabbed me.
they secrete yellow shit if theyre on your hand and rip your tongue if this crap gets in your mouth.
But i still like them, at least the ones native to germany, but theyre mostly gone now, killed by the the chink ones imported by "organic" farmers and those are everywhere and theyre HORRIBLE
>I used to like finding the bizarro world ones that are black with yellow spots.
There's three species commonly seen. I forgot the scientific names, but the common names are ladybug, Chinese lady beetle, and lady bird beetle. They're all introduced species in North America. There's some bullshit online about one being aggressive and bad and the other being good, however they're all practically the same. They all can bite, they all eat aphids, etc. None are inherently better than the other nor are any of them native to N. America. So the bizarro one you are seeing is likely a mutation or morph of an asian lady beetle, which tends to lean more on the yellowish and brownish side naturally and seems to more often have the weird color mutations.
Dunno about the bite pain though. I've never noticed it.
Well, I live in North America NOW, but the black ones with yellow spots (not yellow with black spots, which is what the ones you mentioned all look like) I used to see from time to time when I was growing up in Italy.
Supposedly, it's good luck to find one.
Hey Anon, the black with yellow spots is the dark variety of 14 spotted ladybug. Just so ya know what ya saw.
taken from Vermont Ecostudies
The Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle is native to parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, however its North American range is rapidly spreading. They were originally introduced to the United States to help control the Russian wheat aphid (Hoebeke 2019). These small beetles come in a surprising variety of colors and patterns. Their 14 spots are almost rectangular in shape and their color ranges from cream to light orange.
Thanks for that, but it wasn't quite right. However, looking up the term "14 spot ladybug" gave a related search for the 22 spot ladybird which is so similar that perhaps I've misremembered which colour was the spots and which was the base.
Could be a mutation of the 14-spotter as you suggested, tho. idfk
Thanks again and have a good a Monday ^_^
https://extension.umn.edu/nuisance-insects/multicolored-asian-lady-beetles >Multicolored Asian lady beetle and other lady beetle species feed on aphids and other soft-bodied insects that can damage plants in agricultural crops, gardens and landscapes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_axyridis >As a voracious predator, it was identified as a biocontrol agent for aphids and scale insects.
TL:DR; you are an absolute moron. >inb4 I was only acting like a moron >inb4 Oh I really mean this other completely different bug >inb4 other cope
I once got a little plastic net bag full of ladybugs, and to let them out I tore the bad and let them crawl over me. I think if they bit bad enough to hurt people would be afraid of them by now, like fuzzy caterpillars
I got bit once when we had massive migration swarms of them one year. I still don't know the cause. Though I'm not 100% sure it was the same genus or their similar looking cousin.
Yeah I got bit by one as a kid. I remember the mark it made stayed on my hand for years. Fricking butthole. Still love these things and always go out of my way to save the native ones
Hi
I posted a webm a while back of a bunch of these "hatching" from their cocoons. I'd repost it but Wauf/nel no longer allows incognito users to upload files, which is fricking silly. Anonymous my left two nuts.
Lemme see if I can find it in the archive.
akshully, I don't think it's the same moth. Still fuzzy wuzzy, tho
>mom tells me she spent all afternoon killing these weird black and red bugs all over her plants one sunday
>ask if they looked like pic related
>she literally started crying when I said they were baby lady bugs
funny little fellas, they look like catarpillars with legs.
they always felt so soft.
They taste like shit, though.
Hello fren
>doesn't sting
>doesn't annoy you with loud buzzing
>eat annoying flies
>looks cool
>has a cool name
They're weirdly attracted to my car. Doesn't matter what time of day or where I park the car, if it's dragonfly season, there will always be at least one hovering around the bonnet/hood when I go out to it. Not a complaint since they're nifty little critters, just something I've noticed.
probably mistakes the reflection of your car hood for water, it happens to a lot of insects living in or close to ponds. water beetles might also land on cars when they fly around in search for a new place
Yeah, that makes sense. They never land, tho, just hover by it.
https://chikichiki.tube/gakinotsukai/video/1444-1-en/?subs=en_ass
The larvae also look pretty cool, I will usually collect larvae when I see them and give them food. Love ladybugs
>unleashes pyrazine stench
Nothing personell
Thr asian ones are eating babies and atacking lady birds.
The orange w/black spots (or solid orange ones) have a sting or bite of some kind. Traumatized the frick out of me when I was 4.
Ladybugs are noxious pests. They're stinkbugs, first of all, and second of all their larva invest vegetables like cucumbers and tomatoes. Make sure to kill them whenever possible.
>shits on you
>GOAT of all insects
whoever made this image and everyone who shares it (including OP) needs to lose internet access for 5 years minimum, drink bleach maximum
for me, it's the humble bumblebee
I've seen a few of these guys around my place the last year or so, one got into my little greenhouse and it sounded like some sort of ferocious hornet. I've seen hummingbird mimics as well, crazy how convincing they can be.
I saw one of these one time and tried to tell people what I saw and we were all confused as living frick
They also eat many pest insects that destroy crops (such as aphids). Many people say they bite, but the biting ones are a different species known as Asian ladybeetles, which also bite crops. The real ladybugs don't bite at all.
They also do secrete that yellow shit on you, but only cause they don't really like being handled, so they secrete it as a defense mechanism. I mean, I'd also piss myself if a giant godzilla-sized bipedal animal grabbed me.
>never scared no one
Look up what they look like during their larva phase. Fricking aliens.
If you think thats something wait till you see your larval stage
Does anyone have the webm of the little ladybug slowly turning on a leaf before flying away
>upmost
>Never hurt no one
Clearly you've never seen how they treat aphids.
they secrete yellow shit if theyre on your hand and rip your tongue if this crap gets in your mouth.
But i still like them, at least the ones native to germany, but theyre mostly gone now, killed by the the chink ones imported by "organic" farmers and those are everywhere and theyre HORRIBLE
Why would you put something from a bug's anus into your mouth
>insect secretes toxins as a defense mechanism
>better lick it
moronic Black personbabble vernacular ruined this image
I'm sad to announce that op is a white woman
touch grass. maybe you'll see a ladybug!
You first. And no, pavement doesn't count.
>incel goes one thread without crying about minorities challenge: IMPOSSIBLE
umm sweetiepoo, whites are a minority. time to change script
This is a ladybug thread on Wauf, you insufferable little c**t. I can't wait for all whites to die thanks to behavior like yours
not even the same person. you ruined this thread for yourself, you could have just ignored him. i love ladybugs.
>t.aphid
they do bite and it's not quite but approaches fire ant bite pain.
I've not seen one in years. : (
I used to like finding the bizarro world ones that are black with yellow spots.
Do they? I'll look it up.
>I used to like finding the bizarro world ones that are black with yellow spots.
There's three species commonly seen. I forgot the scientific names, but the common names are ladybug, Chinese lady beetle, and lady bird beetle. They're all introduced species in North America. There's some bullshit online about one being aggressive and bad and the other being good, however they're all practically the same. They all can bite, they all eat aphids, etc. None are inherently better than the other nor are any of them native to N. America. So the bizarro one you are seeing is likely a mutation or morph of an asian lady beetle, which tends to lean more on the yellowish and brownish side naturally and seems to more often have the weird color mutations.
Dunno about the bite pain though. I've never noticed it.
Well, I live in North America NOW, but the black ones with yellow spots (not yellow with black spots, which is what the ones you mentioned all look like) I used to see from time to time when I was growing up in Italy.
Supposedly, it's good luck to find one.
Hey Anon, the black with yellow spots is the dark variety of 14 spotted ladybug. Just so ya know what ya saw.
taken from Vermont Ecostudies
The Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle is native to parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, however its North American range is rapidly spreading. They were originally introduced to the United States to help control the Russian wheat aphid (Hoebeke 2019). These small beetles come in a surprising variety of colors and patterns. Their 14 spots are almost rectangular in shape and their color ranges from cream to light orange.
Thanks for that, but it wasn't quite right. However, looking up the term "14 spot ladybug" gave a related search for the 22 spot ladybird which is so similar that perhaps I've misremembered which colour was the spots and which was the base.
Could be a mutation of the 14-spotter as you suggested, tho. idfk
Thanks again and have a good a Monday ^_^
>however they're all practically the same
Definitely false. Ladybugs are carnivorous and eat aphids. Chinese lady beetles are herbivorous and can be a past to melons and squash.
https://extension.umn.edu/nuisance-insects/multicolored-asian-lady-beetles
>Multicolored Asian lady beetle and other lady beetle species feed on aphids and other soft-bodied insects that can damage plants in agricultural crops, gardens and landscapes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_axyridis
>As a voracious predator, it was identified as a biocontrol agent for aphids and scale insects.
TL:DR; you are an absolute moron.
>inb4 I was only acting like a moron
>inb4 Oh I really mean this other completely different bug
>inb4 other cope
How can that be possible when they eat soft and squishy aphides?
Lol, nice try, but I'm not falling for your bullshit Aphidboy
I once got a little plastic net bag full of ladybugs, and to let them out I tore the bad and let them crawl over me. I think if they bit bad enough to hurt people would be afraid of them by now, like fuzzy caterpillars
I got bit once when we had massive migration swarms of them one year. I still don't know the cause. Though I'm not 100% sure it was the same genus or their similar looking cousin.
Yeah I got bit by one as a kid. I remember the mark it made stayed on my hand for years. Fricking butthole. Still love these things and always go out of my way to save the native ones
One chewed on my finger and then vomited on it. It didn't really hurt that much but it was definitely angry.