Their larvae look like little red and black alligators.
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They do?
Oh yeah, they're actually kind of creepy looking! We had some in our garden a few years ago and I was like "what are these creepy bugs I've never seen before" and my sister was like "those are ladybug larvae, they're cool and good, leave them alone".
Have a friend who has ladybug PTSD after she went to the beach during what I guess is ladybug mating season and said swarms of them landed on her and started biting.
this is the origin story of a comic book hero or villain
The Ladybug-Lady!
'biting' like just walking trying to hold on (so more like pinching with them tiny feetsies?)?
I didn't really ask for details but I've been bit by ladybugs crawling on me before.
Oh, TIL, never happened to me. They have such tiny chompers :)
Intriguingly, in a 2004 study, an entomologist placed 641 beetles in 11 different plastic containers, then cleaned and dried his hands before putting his palm into the containers to observe if the ladybugs bit him.
As a result, he discovered that 26% of the 641 insects bit him in hairless places. The interesting thing is that he wasn’t threatening ladybugs, meaning the bites weren’t self-protective. Ladybugs might have thought of human skin as some kind of food source. However, it’s essential that a much higher rate of female ladybug bites than males. So, do ladybugs bite more if they’re female? This topic probably requires further research.
https://www.learnaboutnature.com/insects/ladybug/do-ladybugs-bite-2/
... so it's the lady ladybugs ...
To be fair humans deserve to be bitten
Totally. I just hope they don't get infected with dead end jobs & financial dept.
I just imagined a bug accedentally getting addicted to SSRIs from biting a human lol
Does it hurt?
It's like a pinch?
Lil flying tank <3
Wow, this is a beautiful picture. What’s the source?
Google lol
Jk I'll go find it again. One moment.