A ladybug landed on me today, she walked around on my hand (and it tickled), before she finally flew away
They are so beautiful

Too bad i didn`t think of taking a picture



Did you know:

- There are nearly 5,000 different kinds of ladybugs worldwide

- A female ladybug will lay more than 1000 eggs in her lifetime

- A ladybug beats its wings 85 times a second when it flies

- Ladybugs chew from side to side and not up and down like people do

- If you squeeze a ladybug it will bite you, but the bite won't hurt

- The spots on a ladybug fade as the ladybug gets older

- The male ladybug is usually smaller than the female

- Ladybugs are good luck because they are the nannies to the fairies.
So if you see one there is sure to be a fairy colony nearby.


typo
[Edited 6/11/06 13:37pm]

nothing in particular to say, except that they seem to like me, and i like them awfully well in return.

i swear i have carried about 50 out of my house this year

my daughter loves ladybugs. that's her symbol at preschool... so i call her my little ladybug. she catches them in our backyard, and is so pleased with herself when she gets one!


the other day she was on the front porch and turned to me and said "mommy, i'm trying to put my ladybug back together b/c i squished her so i'm trying to put her back together."

fantasyislander said:

I love to hear stories like that, it almost makes me wish i was a kid again. Every time my mother found a ladybug she used to put it in my hands and tell me to wait for it to fly away, and make a wish

(damn, i forgot to make a wish today )

emm said:

well thanx to the "benifits" of them and importation ...

2 times a yr we get swarmed and i mean swarmed... thousands upon thousands of them around and inside the house for weeks and weeks

cute used to think so

the things STINK...and they can bite/sting and the leave little shit marks all over

i say kill them all

friggin lady bugs


BTW ... white sage ( burn bundles ) and camphor oil are pretty good at keeping them away

pesticides make them dye slow and as they do the smear orange blood ooze all over where they crawl

i cant stand the things anymore

I only see one or two of them each year...

Icicle said:

come on over... you can spend a week here during their invasion... you'll have a different perspective

its much like this everywhere you look .step ...



every time you go outside they are in your hair and ears mouth face...

the windows inside and out look much like this



in every corner and i mean EVERY each day i have to vaccume up 2-3 times a day clumps like these



ladybugs

Mach said:

I can see why you`re sick of them, when it`s that much of them and they come inside the house, it`s a problem.

I remember my 2 year away at school, i lived in a small place which crawled with some weird bugs,
in Norway we call them "Kaffedyr", which would mean something like "Coffee-bugs" (!)
They have a hard dark shell, and that`s basically what they look like, like a little striped shell walking around

Mach said:

that is the last thing i was expecting to read!!

awww mach... it was like that with grasshoppers when i was young
you had to wear lace up shoes because if you wore anything that wasn't tight a grasshopper would end up in your shoe and go squish

emm said:

i am over myself now ...actually i LOVE and honor them

just NOT the ones that invade my space

They is cute, ain'ts they We call them Ladybirds over this side.

my house was infested with them once. it was kinda cool to see so many of them at once.

Icicle said:

Well duh. LOL I mean you're crushing it to death, what do you expect it to do, giggle?

Mach said:

They infest here now too! Twice a year. I HATES them. Cannot stand them. I want them all to die.

CarrieMpls said:

those are asian beetles, aren't they? i mean, not ladybugs?

i only know because i've been cleaning the cabin and they infest it every years.


ladybug:




asian beetle:

My mom always told me lady bugs are good luck,if they land on you that means good fortune is coming your way

Mach you are extremely lucky!

One year our church got robbed. The following Sunday the whole back wall was covered in lady bugs. A few months later we received a donation and the church got remodeled

I love lady bugs! The last time a ladybug landed on me, I went shopping...and it was sales galore

I just like to believe it

ThreadCula said:

Nice stories

To veer away slighty but still on the Ladybirds theme, there was a kid in my infants school who used to eat them, chase other kids and then spit the ladybird out at them Little devil child

Heres the b-day cake I made my daughter this yr.....for her 1st b-day!

Another little known fact---Ladybugs are the only creatures besides humans to actively engage in prostitution.

I used to like the movie Ladybugs.