Does anyone else talk to ppl who for some reason think certain ladybug sp. are bad, a lot of people say things like, “yellow ladybugs aren’t real ladybugs and they bite/ are venomous, and we kill them whenever we see them” Another one I hear a lot is “Asian ladybugs aren’t real ladybugs, and they al…

I have heard this about yellow ladybugs, one of which I believe I may of been bitten by, and it hurt. However all I’ve heard about ladybugs has been how great they are {and I don’t want to hurt them}, so I’ve suspected I may be misremembering… either way, I do tend to avoid yellow ladybugs because o…

A lot of misinformation about lady beetles (aka ladybugs) gets spread around on gardening and nature social media pages. I haven’t heard people refer to “yellow ladybugs” but I often see the misconception that Asian Lady Beetles are not “ladybugs” (which are almost always represented by a graphic of…

They are bad because they are not ripe yet. (sorry)

I suspected some of the stuff around Asian ladybeetles was because they are invasives. Still, I have never been bitten by one so I am wondering why people are saying this. [image] swampster: The term “beneficial” is relative. Because lady beetles will sometimes eat Monarch eggs and young larvae…

OMG this is marked as a solution lol :rofl:

[image] giannamaria: I guess I have always thought of ladybugs as a specialist species feeding on aphids I see them eat mayflies on my moth sheet, both native H convergens and non-native O v-nigrum adults. Other lady beetles eat scale bugs, powdery mildew, and more https://bugguide.net/node/v…

[image] giannamaria: idk why people keep saying they bite (Unless I have been extremely lucky :woman_shrugging:t4: ) I have been bitten by the Asian Lady Beetle many times. Bonus: They stain your clothes when you try to wipe them off…

[image] giannamaria: idk why people keep saying they bite (Unless I have been extremely lucky :woman_shrugging:t4: ) They don’t bite often, especially if you are not rough with them, but they can and do sometimes bite.

[image] giannamaria: idk why people keep saying they bite (Unless I have been extremely lucky :woman_shrugging:t4: ) I have been bitten by the native Hippodamia convergens, but only when they were massing on a mountain peak in southeast Arizona. I assumed it was something to do with this seas…

Maybe this misconception is related to the myth that red lady beetles are lucky? I mean, yellow is kind of like an inverse of red in lady beetles, so maybe the myths reflect that. That just leaves orange lady beetles. Being in the middle of the two, they must not have any effect at all.

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