Pssst: Ladybugs Have a Killer Secret

[@pbsterra]

We *love* seeing all the different translations! Got any others? Let us know!

[@AndrewMcColl]

In te reo Māori, the collective name for ladybirds is "mumutawa"

[@nehuenesquivel]

Vaquita de San Antonio

[@b.n.6313]

In dutvh they are called lieveheersbeestjes

[@PropagandasaurusRex]

The literal translation of "Lieveheersbeestje" is "Lovelylordsmallanimal" or in English "Small animal of the lovely lord".

[@skaska4024]

Slovak: pánbožkova kravička = the God's cow or lienka

[@troygaspard6732]

The fact that they feast on aphids is more than enough to love them.

[@MahkyVmedia1]

Thank you

[@allgoo1990]

"The fact that they feast on aphids is more than enough to love them." == Wait till you see their larvas eating them.

[@distractionb]

I was born a poor aphid in a patch of sick roses

[@speedfreak8200]

Cannabis 🪴 🌱 🌿 plants benefit from Lady Bird 🐦 Bugs I mean 🐦 Birds

[@pkendall3]

What about aphids spreading diseases to invasive/exotic/pervasive plant species? Is that good or bad?🤔

[@willemvandebeek]

In Dutch Ladybugs are called 'Lieveheersbeestjes', which translates directly to 'Dearlordcritters'. I have been told by Dutch biologist Midas Dekkers that this happened a long time ago, when someone was about to be executed, but this ladybug flew on top of the chopping block and the criminal carefully helped the ladybug off the chopping block, put the ladybug with his hand elsewhere, and then laid his head on the chopping block. The priest, who witnessed this act of kindness, stopped the execution and said the insect was sent by our dear Lord to proof his innocence. The criminal got free and the insect is henceforth known as our "DearLordCritter". :)

[@nfboogaard]

Thx! Weer wat geleerd 😊

[@pvtbuddie]

What criminal? He was proven innocent by God - so naturally innocent in the first place that he could not be guilty of the crime.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

​@@pvtbuddielaws of man out weigh laws of "god" Jesus was betrayed by who? And Jesus forgave him. Yet anyone reading g on the circles of hell know that Judas was not forgiven, even though it was the son of God who forgave him. Yet he's in the final circle of hell. If Jesus's forgiveness is worth an eternity of damnation, there is no forgiveness

[@jamesmeppler6375]

This is something called a tall tale....this story goes way back before the dutch were even a thing. Supposed to be called Ladybird and the translations that happened after that have really screwed the original meaning. Looks like its more a Russian story about a short red cow...

[@pvtbuddie]

@@jamesmeppler6375 : You should try reading your Bible instead.

[@skepticaljohn]

One of my earliest memories is of sitting on a porch and seeing an abundance of ladybug nymphs. Their color and shape as well as their numbers fascinated me. Seventy years later and I am a retired naturalist who has never seen so many nymphs since then. Our insect numbers are declining.

[@daisypekin6787]

the "good" insects are declining.

[@That.Lady.withtheYarn]

Silent spring

[@speedfreak8200]

Not wearing clothes is acceptable... you go Mr. Natural!!

[@ResortDog]

But the variety is vastly expanding.

[@tiffanyb.7596]

My grandmother used to call them Rose-fairies because they protected her roses. I don’t know how she came about calling them that. But she was delighted they were helping her with her garden, because she didn’t want to use insecticide. 🥰 🐞

[@sexgod6909]

Bless her..❤

[@mimish.4158]

Rose fairies: lovely name. Bless your grandmother. 🌻

[@MysticWizardOfMind]

She smoked way too much marijuana.

[@stargatis]

⁠We can’t smoke enough. I always thought ladybugs and mayflies looked like little flying fairies 🧚🏼‍♀️

[@blossom1643]

Pretty name! Always Listen to the old folks!✌️

[@girlygirl402]

I gave a lady bug a drink of water once I put a little drop on a piece of wood and it walked up and drank it❤

[@nycapple]

a ladybug just landed on my finger and 💩 i feel blessed 🙏🏽

[@Loki123x]

in Japanese they're called "tentōmushi" which roughly translates to "sun bug" because they believe the beetles fly towards the sun and always try to crawl upwards

[@erzsebetkovacs2527]

Indeed. They can be such a nuisance late October, early November, when they gather at sunny spots on the walls of a house or next to a window, trying to escape the coming cold and get inside, and usually, they manage to do that.

[@andretokayuk8100]

"Bojia korovka" in Ukrainian = god's little cow..)

[@OsakaJoe01]

I've never seen the kanji for lady bug in Japanese, but I thought it was "ten spot bug" 点十虫. Now I don't know what it is. 😂

[@emilychun7445]

@@OsakaJoe01Tentōmushi is normally written in hiragana or katakana, since in kanji it’s 天道虫, which can be read as tendōmushi…maybe

[@EduardoEscarez]

​@@andretokayuk8100 In Argentina they are called "Vaquitas de San Antonio" ("Saint Anthony's little cows") and in my country (Chile) they are called "chinitas" because of the word in quechua for maids, "china".

[@TheChristmasNinja12]

This video reminded me of a fact I heard once where releasing wolves into an area reduces the number of deer strikes on cars because the wolves create a "landscape of fear" that makes the deer more cautious. I thought it was really interesting to see the parallel with the ladybird's "smell of fear!"

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Imagine living next to a lettuce farm and suddenly becoming terrified. They sprayed the plants. 😂

[@williamferri3982]

Yes I call them pain in the ass bugs,they are over my house . In my bed and just about everywhere else.

[@ResortDog]

It's not wilderness if it can't kill you. If you cant die it's not a natural.cycle.

[@hzhang1228]

since everyone is sharing what they are called in their language; in China they are called "seven star ladle bug", or more lovingly "flower sister". 🐞

[@kinilas]

Ladybug perfume as a pesticide would be great for ecology as many invasive ladybugs are spread by gardeners who don't know any better

[@henryTech720]

Humans are the invasive species

[@nawdude4292]

Yeah and some chemicals made by scientists have never had any hidden negative effects... 😂

[@kinilas]

@@nawdude4292 ever take aspirin for headaches?

[@davebashford3753]

Or spread by big box stores who don't care.

[@vasilismarkandonis9435]

In Greek their name is "paschalitsa" (πασχαλίτσα), a reference to Easter ("Pascha", "Πάσχα"), probably because there are many of them during the spring when Easter is celebrated

[@davis4555]

Even "Ladybug" in English is a reference to Mary. It is shortened from "Our Lady's Bug." It comes from traditional stories of people praying for Mary's intercession to save their crops from damaging insects. Ladybugs saved the crops, so they're named after Mary since she sent them.

[@Ali-bu6lo]

In Persian they are "Kafshduzak (کفشدوزک)", literally: "little shoe maker"

[@Pygmygerbil88]

🙋‍♂️

[@nukadahl]

In Greenland they are called: aamanganiaq (the one who want to resemble a glowing coal)

[@raphyangel9828]

I've heard of the Ladybug being called "Scarlet Death" before. A friend I had in middle school was fascinated with Ladybugs, & gave them that nickname after observing how many aphids they consumed on a regular basis. Whenever I found any ladybugs, I'd coax them onto my hand, then release them onto the rose bush by my house, cuz aphids loved to congregate on it, killing the roses before they could even be pollinated, or sometimes before they could even bloom. After a few months of constantly transporting ladybugs to the rose bush, I found it flourished & thrived a lot better. As a middle school kid, I was so proud of myself for figuring out how to save such a beautiful plant, by feeding beautiful bugs! 😆

[@truthbebold4009]

Excellent use of your power of observation 🙌

[@psychshift]

Yup thats how our ancestors figured stuff out. Observation and accidental misshaps.

[@johnhilton4348]

Beautiful. Right on! I now care for my grandmother's rose bushes and let certain weeds like marsh mallow thrive in a few places to encourage them here which brings enough to share. What a cool kid you were!

[@rocioaguilera3555]

In Spanish is mariquita or catarina

[@insightwmrssladywbuzz5779]

I kind of figured they had something inside of them ,because Everytime I wear sweet perfume they where attaching me.😂😂. I didn’t think it was them because I firgure they don’t bit human. But because I smell like flowers Humm, yea of course they where wondering 😂😂

[@RiverWilliamson]

Always happy to learn more about the diverse world of beetles

[@fredklier]

In Portuguese, they are called “joaninhas” which means Little John or something of the sort. But we use the feminine article for them, and I have no idea why they call that or why we use the feminine article.

[@raquelolegario6467]

In Brazil we believe joaninha (little Joanna, lady bird beetle) is a sign of good luck and prosperity. If one lands on you do your best not to scare it away 😊

[@ElthrosXL]

Thanks for this! Im learning português and this helps! Obrigado!

[@youruncleted]

it has the same religious connotation. comes from "Senhora de São João" (Lady of St. John), from Ilha da Madeira, in Portugal. originally, it was called "Senhora de Santo Antônio" (Lady of St. Anthony) in the mainland, but the São João version gained popularity in late victorian era, we don't really know the reason. The "joaninha" we use in Brazil and Portugal comes from that, the original "Lady of St. John", after portuguese speakers applied their (endearing) habit of using diminutives for everything.

[@EntoEric24]

Love these mini-documentaries; and loving the comments here, from all over the world, sharing Indigenous words for ladybird beetles, and the cultural histories behind them.

[@learning2live_brokeninchro157]

I grew up on a large farm in Oregon, with a big red and white livestock barn. Almost every year as a child that I can remember, between the end of August to end of September we would find thousands of Ladybird Beetles gathered on the southeast corner of our barn in the sun. They seemed to stay there for a few days and then just as quickly as they showed up, they would be gone again. It was amazing and magical. They made it look like the paint was moving, because there would be so many clustered together. It was beautiful. My grandmother would say they were a “good omen”, that meant the harvest would be healthy and plentiful. I wish now that we had taken pictures of this annual event. I’m not sure why we never did? Probably because we didn’t have camera phones attached to us back then. From what I’ve heard they were most likely gathering there because there was an opening to get into the barn to hibernate together. 🐞🐞

[@marklundeberg7006]

Fortunately lots of other people have taken photos. Look up 'ladybugs swarming'. I've never been lucky enough to see it myself...

[@maryhairy1]

This certainly is an untouched subject. What a wonderful diverse protection for plants. Use nature against the invaders. Go lady birds!

[@tm-ln4hj]

Mofos bite here in the Midwest. When we harvest the fields and it gets colder outside they move into your house and like windows but will bite you if you let one get on you

[@SimoraCheeks1]

Those aren't native ladybugs! They look similar, but if they bite, they're actually Asian ladybird beetles.

[@birchtree2274]

​@@SimoraCheeks1Actually any ladybug can bite. After all they all have mouths. The Asian ladybeetles have a particular reputation for it because not only are they temperamentally more aggressive as feeders, they currently outnumber our native species in North America.

[@mariechantalerosembloom8157]

Thanx for this.. so it’s not just me! People don’t believe me... they bite hard dang!

[@arthurmartin4616]

German also has a name for these bugs relating to Mary, marienkäfer. In Japan it's name, it's name tentomushi, references the sun.

[@moriji]

I used to collect lady bugs in the summer months as a child and feed them aphids. I would also find lady bugs that were yet to emerge from cocoons and watch them come out. Their wings were soft and then they would harden. I was fascinated by them.

[@AH-ge8eq]

a nice childhood memory :) As kids, we used to catch fireflies on long summer evenings

[@jhendin]

In Swedish they're called Nyckelpiga, which literally translates as 'key maiden'. It's a reference to the Virgin Mary holding the keys to heaven.

[@d4n13lsd]

Great vídeo. Lots of information and the location where the outdoor interview took place was kind of a mood changer. Being an inhabitant of tropical landscapes, that colors just moved me beyond the reasonable. Beautiful. Ah, in brazil we call tem 'joaninhas'.

[@McKeelix]

Can confirm that ladybugs do not taste good. They taste pungent in a way that is hard to describe. Like the way they smell, except stronger. (Note: Accidentally caught a ladybug in my mouth while running around as a child. I spat it out on a nearby tree branch. The offending beetle was not harmed and flew away after it regained its bearings.)

[@jrnaturefreak]

In Afrikaans they are called lieweheersbesie ("Dear Lord's beetle"), or less commonly skilpadbesie (tortoise beetle)

[@magesalmanac6424]

Ha tortoise beetle, that’s really cute ☺️

[@MysticWizardOfMind]

Stay out of Africa. Thanks.

[@paularomano5549]

Here in Brazil ladybugs are called Joaninha. Something like Little Joan. I have always been curious to know why. After watching this video I became even more curious.

[@rhondahuggins9542]

I live surrounded by field crops...so Lady Beetles are well represented here! I can see 'The Smell of Fear' being advertised in one of those moody celeb commercials produced by French perfumers😉❤️🐞

[@Albopepper]

Great video. I love those little garden companions! I'm always trying to think how to attract them to my urban garden. Lots of perennial flowers and herbs. Keeps them coming back every season! And then I get free pest control for all those garden veggies!!! 😁 🍅🌶

[@Albopepper]

@@Joe-sg9ll Yes you can! I've done that before. But they might not be the type of native species you expect for your area. Either way, if they don't have natural habitat and food sources, they'll just fly off and won't do as much good as you hope.

[@Anilat1029]

Lady bugs are also called ‘Catarinas’ in Spanish 😊

[@chippysteve4524]

"The smell of fear" was the subtitle to the comedy film The Naked Gun 2.5!

[@juliabarbiero9226]

In Argentina we call them "vaquitas de San Antonio" (San Antonio's little cows) - no idea why- and also "mariquita". I've read there are more than 160 native varieties in my country. However, their population has been reduced due to the destruction of their natural environment and the invasion of non-native species. I had always heard they are good for plants, but once I saw one in action, feasting on the aphids on a rosebud. It was a real killing machine!

[@xgearheart8592]

In Mexico we simply called them "vaquitas" or "Marquita" too 😅

[@cw4608]

I think it is because they seem to be herding aphids

[@DBMorris]

They are wonderful! They keep the pests off of my pot plants. They eat aphids and mites in droves . Keep my plants clean as a whistle

[@speedfreak8200]

I bet you have some tasty nugs

[@PatipanWongkleaw]

I find it quite intriguing that people are familiar with the lady bug with red and black color. I have seen like 1-2 lady bugs with that color. Most of the time I just see the orange/yellow lady bug. Even in my native language, Lady bug name is actually translated into golden turtle.

[@BenjamintheTortoise]

I love that!... Golden turtle 😊 I see mostly orange lady bugs in my garden, and I'm so thankful for them! 🐞

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Despite what this video tells you...they aren't the same. Lady bugs are only red with black dots and not that white W on its head. Its like calling a red snake a red snake just to find out the red pigment comes from different things, which is basically what defines things being different

[@jacobruiz97]

Those were probably Asian ladybeetles, not lady bugs. True lady bugs really are red and black

[@madmattdigs9518]

This is what drives me crazy about ladybugs. When I was a kid, growing up in Chicago, ladybugs were always red with black dots. Everyone loved them. They didn’t bite, they were easy to pick up and play with, and I don’t ever remember seeing them in numbers. There would be one here, one there… Then… at some point, we were overrun by the orange ladybugs. They bite! It’s not terribly painful, just annoying. And these orange ones, you’ll find them in large numbers. All over the side of your house, around windows mostly. We refer to these as Chinese ladybugs. I’m not sure if they actually are from China. But they’ve ruined ladybugs for me. And everyone I know. And I never see the nice friendly red ones anymore!

[@chitinskin9860]

@@madmattdigs9518 You are likely dealing with harmonia axyridis, the Asian lady beetle (AKA harlequin ladybug), which is technically a ladybug native to China, so you're not wrong. They come in many different colors, but the main one is reddish-orange. They are invasive, and their worst impact tends to be around suburban areas where other ladybugs are at a disadvantage from pollution, as the harlequin is pollution resistant. You can usually identify them by the M symbol on their pronotum (white neck plate). Not much can be done about them without bio-control, though killing any on sight can help a little, as well as doing your best to make the environment more hospitable to native lady beetles so they can fight back. Contrary to what many others in this comment section are saying, lady beetles are still ladybugs, color and common name doesn't matter, it's genetics (that, and they have every other basic ladybug quality, it's like saying a basketball isn't a ball because it has stripes, like wtf?). Those who claim they aren't probably should read a book, or pay attention to the video they just clicked, which goes over this.

[@Kukkakukko]

As a gardener and someone who lives in a house I love ladybugs and spiders more than anything. I should pay them for the work they do but they dont't seem to mind being underpaid, maybe they're not in it for the money!

[@Lunar994]

Lol

[@incifisenk9945]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☮️🐞🕊🙋🏻‍♀️

[@cosmosxk9695]

At least they're getting some good meals out of it!

[@iuchoi]

Spiders like to rest inside loose pine cones, so if you want to have more spider population just pick a lot of pine cones, bring them to where you want the spiders to settle, and smoke the cones to force the spiders out and they will live near

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Mint and garlic do way better job and can be year round while you're multi legged friends are not able to.

[@lil----lil]

I've seen plenty of jewels made in the shape of a ladybug but I've NEVER seen a jewel made in the shape of a cockroach.

[@ghyslainabel]

The round shape of ladybugs are easier to reproduce in jewellery. The shape of cockroaches is more irregular.

[@pixelmaster98]

well yeah, you put the ladybug-shaped jewelry on a lady. Now imagine why you haven't seen cockroach-shaped jewelry xD

[@Shadoweknows76]

You reminded me of that Egyptian beetle made into jewelry. It kinda resembles one.

[@pinballrobbie]

The Scarab dung beetle.@@Shadoweknows76

[@jamesmeppler6375]

​@@Shadoweknows76 scarab? Maybe if you have no idea what the difference is between the two which is why you easily got confused?

[@stephaniekerr]

Those little lovely little ladies have saved a couple of my gardens over the years. ❤️🐞❤️ 🐞 ❤️🐞❤️🐞❤️🐞❤️

[@rhyothemisprinceps1617]

I felt a pang of envy when Dr Ware recounted how she had no interest in entomology until after she landed a summer research assistant job. I wanted a relevant summer job so badly when I attended university as a Biology major in the late 80's and early 90's. I was told there were no openings; later a grad student told me that women could not do field research since they would be a 'distraction'. I realize now that there were departments/universities at the time that were better for women - but I didn't know that then. So instead I worked at Wendy's in the summer.

[@hwadeiv]

Love how excited professors get while talking about their research

[@lorenzoblum868]

Wearing a "beetle" shirt... Edit 1:12

[@martinphilip8998]

Yes. Their enthusiasm can be infectious. I liked learning that a bunch is a loveliness of ladybugs. I remember the thrill of finding them in a group under a crop in the early spring.

[@commanderjameson2708]

That professor excites me. She has incredible talents.

[@b4food]

Growing up in Wisconsin, the invasive species of Ladybug would flood our house every summer because it was cooler, we spent a lot of time cleaning up all the corpses from when they failed to get into the windows. They also smelled ‘em terrible, but on the other hand the ladybugs we had in California kept all the aphids off our roses.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

Asian lady beetles are not lady bugs

[@chitinskin9860]

@@jamesmeppler6375 Yes they are, they were even mentioned in this video (harlequin lady beetles and Asian lady beetles are the same thing). Anyone who says otherwise probably doesn't know what they are talking about. If you care, let me explain: every beetle in the coccinellid family is a ladybug, ladybug is just the common name of that group. Ladybug also has several different synonyms, such as ladybird, ladybird beetle, lady beetle, ladybug beetle, and so on. Some species go by one synonym more than others, such as the pink-spotted lady beetle, or the harlequin lady beetle, but you wouldn't be wrong calling them ladybug either.

[@cathyb1273]

In french the common name is coccinelle because of the family Coccinellidae. But regionally they are also called ”bête à bon dieu” roughly translated as ”beast of god” or pernette for which I have no clue why 😅

[@Webjutter]

In Dutch they are called "lieveheersbeestje" which has the same meaning as ”bête à bon dieu”".

[@caseyb1346]

I noticed a strange behavior in one ladybug. It was in the city and I suppose it was hungry, so it started eating the cuticle of my thumb. Crazy people pay money to get rid of their cuticles when a ladybug will remove them for free lmao.

[@suziperret468]

Good job on reporting about Lady Bugs! I love putting them in my garden when they are available. Yeah, insects can be incredible…just look at butterflies 🦋, or dragon flies, or bees, or grasshoppers…or giant hummingbird moths…ahhh, so many ….

[@justayoutuber1906]

In the wine industry, a few lady bugs in the crushed grapes can ruin the entire batch. Their scent/taste is that bad.

[@User_2345h]

I don’t think it’s the scent or taste that would drive away customers

[@2horses4U]

In the Flamish dialect (Flanders, Begium - where the people speek dutch) we call ladybugs "pim pam poon" (pim pam poentje). It's hard to translate, but it originates as "clown bug".

[@drinny26]

I love ladybugs. I think they’re good luck. When I see them in my garden I am so happy.

[@voEovove]

In my native language of Polish, a Ladybug is called a "Biedronka." It's also the name of a large supermarket chain store that has outcompeted its smaller denominators along the economic food chain. It's partially responsible for the extinction of the entity known as the local corner store.

[@bUwUmer1260]

Sounds like Polands equivalent of Walmart!

[@kyokoyumi]

I can see why they called themselves after the insect lol

[@jacobruiz97]

The Polish Walmart

[@KangwithoutaKangdom]

​@@bUwUmer1260😂😂😂 same thought

[@elky82]

What a vibrant, bubbly and refreshing host, I'd like to see more videos with her hosting them

[@patriciogonzalez4310]

In Mexico they are also called “CATARINAS”.

[@richardpark3054]

A few years ago, while biking in Redwood Regional Park (east of Oakland and now called 'Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park'), I was amazed to see millions of lady bugs in huge clumps and mats covering the ground, logs, bushes, leaves, everything, on both sides of the trail (Stream Trail). Seriously, there had to be literally millions. Wow!

[@itchy7879]

Insectarium is incredibly well produced, keep it up!

[@silversurfer806]

I have a huge group of them overwintering in my garage door runner near the floor on the inside of the garage under an outdoor pillow. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of them all grouped together. I dont dare disturb them.

[@fiberpoet6250]

Awesome!! Good luck! I’m a bug nerd and I’m so excited to learn of this research. You have a dream job! This type of work is important to protect native bug species and pollenators. Keep up the good work I hope to see Ladybug perfume on the shelves in garden centers someday

[@MrFancyFingers]

About 10 years ago I was in a park in the east bay hills of the SF Bay Area. I was walking my dogs in the spring and we ran into a sunny hillside where billions of ladybugs were coming out of the hills. Flying and crawling all over, an amazing sight.

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

Informally, a "bug" is a small insect. In the study of insects, however, a "bug" has a more restricted definition, being of a large order having mouthparts that are specialized for piercing and sucking. Chowing down on other insects doesn't count.

[@daisymaddie8503]

Wow! That blew my mind after seeing how many kinds there are. I never seen a blue, white, green, lady bug 😮

[@davids9027]

years ago during winters my house would be invaded by ladybird beetles. I notice the scarlet beetles were "friendly" while the orange, harlequin? ones would bite (nip) if they crawled onto my hand. Otherwise both types were mild mannered visitors

[@rbh3482]

Yes I have been bitten a couple of times by ladybugs. They do have quite bite to them!

[@bigoldgrizzly]

We get them in the thousands coming into the house in autumn. Through the winter we find them all over the house in golf ball sized clumps and we are content to have them as lodgers.This winters crop are just coming out of hibernation and we have them crawling everywhere.

[@SJHFoto]

So cute! Ladybugs are among my favourite beetles

[@jamesmeppler6375]

If you take away lady bugs, no one would be saying they have a favorite beetle. Since most of them are ugly and creepy while lady bugs are cute for their color alone

[@SJHFoto]

@@jamesmeppler6375 I actually have a whole list of favourite beetles. But I know I am unusual in that I love all insects and find domestic pets disgusting

[@captainkoala5660]

In Dutch it is called a 'Lieveheersbeestje' which translates to good lord beasty. Beast of the good lord I suppose.

[@huntingkc1]

WTF? Did that lady just insult bugs? Maybe make bugs more lovable

[@virginiamiller4890]

This was fascinating! So many new things that I learned about Lady Bird Beetles - This is the first time I've heard of it's name. Also, I love the the use of natural pest management.

[@willswalkingwest7267]

I love hearing peoples' stories and how they end up on certain career paths. Hers was very cool. And I think she's better at her research than someone who just grew up loving Lady Bugs. Her motives are better and she probably entered the field with a more objective path of gaining understanding. Kudos to her and kudos to the folks who made this very interesting video.

[@See_Jay_Play]

I had read that the name "ladybug" was a modern corruption of "Our Lady's bird beetle"; again, in reference to the Virgin Mary, "Our Lady".

[@kristianvrum8979]

If so, that would coincide with the Norwegian name "Marihøne", where Mari is a reference to Virgin Mary. Unfortunately I have no plausible explanation for the latter part, as "høne" equals hen in english 🙂

[@See_Jay_Play]

@@kristianvrum8979 they're bird beetles, right? A hen is a bird! XD

[@melmeki4422]

Pair of ladybugs came to my garden last year. Then my garden became aphids free without chemicals! I can't stop to love them!🐞

[@annalinesmith6289]

In Afrikaans (South Africa) they are called skilpadbesie. Translates to tortoise beetle.

[@prototropo]

"Research informs policy" to advance sustainable agriculture. Beautiful truth!

[@lusofreak]

Several people have pointed out that in Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil, etc...) the name of the insect is "Joaninha" which is a diminutive of "Joana", the female version of "João" (John). This, of course draws it's origins from the Bible and Christian religion, and relates to a name that the insect has in French - Bête-de-Dieu - or Beast of God. As many Portuguese words get their similarities from French/English, an adaptation was set here, as the name Joana means "sent by God", and being the creature so small, the diminutive was used...

[@bridochon2808]

French people would rather say "Bête-à-bon-Dieu" i.e. Beast of good God 🙂

[@MrNicofrog]

tomato leaf tea is very easy to make and repels aphids quite effectively

[@incifisenk9945]

❤🐞In Turkish we call them luck-bugs or ladybugs. If someone finds a ladybug anywhere anytime it’s believed good luck. When I was a kid it’s very cheerful and fun thing to come across a ladybug; you catch it without giving any harm and bid it godspeed to the sky by singing a little carol convincing to fly again: Fly fly my bug, my mom’s gonna buy you sleepers and shoes🎶🎵❤️🐞

[@29jensen17]

In Denmark, children do something similar to that. They would catch a ladybug, let it crawl to the tip of their finger and when it fly, they would say a little rime, translated to "fly up to God and ask for good weather tomorrow and today". 😊

[@meelahmak]

I've always considered them good luck as well! I'm sorry thankful when I get to see a beaut x

[@MikyD406]

​@@29jensen17 in Romania as well, but the song goes " incotro ii zbura, acolo m-oi marita" meaning : wich way you will fly, that is where i will marry". Girls used to watch the direction of the Ladybug's flight and believed that from that direction their future husband will be.

[@DudeEM]

Ladybugs is an important part of my childhood in the 80’s. The ladybugs in my childhood town in the Philippines have this really deep crimson red color thus their polka dot design is just so beautiful. We usually caught them on eggplant leaves because there were a lot of powdery insects living on it. We would let go of them afterwards of course. 80’s kids like me really enjoyed nature and outdoor games growing up as video games (the Nintendo family computer) would compete with other people at home over the use of the TV thus, we we had to play with the neighborhood kids and catching & releasing ladybugs was effortless fun.

[@Beryllahawk]

Loving this series!!! Ladybugs are pretty awesome, but I remember when I fully learned that they are indeed predators - because one bit me, haha!! It just nipped me to see if I tasted good, I think. The ones where I live (southeast US, south Mississippi to be more exact) are a bit more orange than red, and for the longest time I wondered if it was their food - but no, they're just a slightly different species from the story-book lady beetle! Looking forward to more!! Will y'all cover moths at some point? Those are my favorite bugs to interact with, they're almost always super chill. I even got to hang out with a Luna Moth once, it just sat right on my shoulder and upper arm and let me touch it, and then flew on back outside after a few minutes. And I'm still trying - well over twenty years later - to figure out just what species of moth I got to raise back in elementary school... It's surprising how hard it is to identify "white moth from Texas," and I dunno why!

[@moonshinershonor202]

I'm still trying to get a paper wasp to land on my finger again. I was one with Nature.

[@GarthWatkins-th3jt]

I was bitten by a ladybug years ago. It hurt! I've mentioned it to numerous people and no one believes me, what a riot! Yes, it really bit me and it really hurt! I think they're cool regardless.

[@rancidcrawfish]

Sounds more like a japanese beetle

[@PixelTheExtraTerrestrial]

​@@GarthWatkins-th3jtYes, some can cause a nip, but they cannot break through human skin. Ladybugs feed on other insects, they have chewing mouthparts, but their mandibles (chewing parts) are designed for chewing on soft-bodied insects. In most cases, they bite if threatened or if they mistake you for a meal but Traditionally ladybugs feed on agricultural pests and small insects like aphids; therefore they’re usually a joyful sight for farmers. Since their mouths are specialized only for feeding on soft-bodied insects they generally don’t tend to “bite” humans even if they land on the skin’s surface. The most they do is scratch on the skin surface which results in a mild ‘nip’.

[@chitinskin9860]

As with most beetles, lady beetles are diverse, and North America has many different species. However, the species you described seems to be the invasive Asian (aka harlequin) Lady beetle. We have native lady beetles with reddish-orange coloration, and we have ones that may bite you, but if they have both of those qualities, an M on the back of a white neck plate, and prefer to be around man-made structures, then it's likely the harlequin lady beetle. They are invasive, and can displace many native lady beetles, especially in areas where the natives are at a disadvantage, like most urban and suburban locations. You should be seeing a lot more types of lady beetles in Mississippi, only seeing the harlequins (along with other exotics like the 7 spot) is a sign of an unhealthy local ecosystem, there may be too many pollutants and exotic plants around. As for the moth thing, white is an extremely common color among lepidopterans, along with gray and brown (a lot of them are all 3), so searching up a moth based on that particular color is like trying to find a needle in a hay stack. Just as some examples, nearly every yucca moth is white, most tiger moths are white, domestic silk moths are white, about half the geometer moths in my state are white, several entire families of butterfly are white, most plume moths are white, and so on. You might have a better chance looking for other distinct qualities that you remember on the moth, how the caterpillar looked is the most helpful.

[@warren52nz]

Coincidently, I got bitten by a "baby" Ladybug a couple of weeks ago. I had to look up what it was. Just a pinprick, no after effects.

[@joannmay-anthony1076]

all our red lady bugs have been replaced by an orange lady bug. I am not happy about this. It is the same with stink bugs, a new species has replaced our original stink bug which wasn't a problem. The new stink bugs are a problem and over whelming.

[@margo3367]

Their lifespan is only one year? That’s barely a blink of the eye. Meanwhile, I saw a tortoise on youtube that was 192 y.o. There must be some cosmic rhyme or reason to it, but it’s beyond me to figure out.

[@LeBongFairy]

I had a shit ton of em living in my room as a kid. I was terrified of them for a long time, until I found a " shiny" one. It was black with one big blue spot, amongst the many red with black. Never seen such a magnificent little bug. No matter where I moved in my room, they piled above my bed. I had to have a drape to protect me from falling dead ones. Very gross, very weird, very cursed, but.. very funny in hindsight.

[@2degucitas]

They came into your room to survive winter.

[@sirensynapse5603]

@@2degucitas Or to drink his vital fluids in his sleep. 😁

[@LeBongFairy]

@@2degucitas I called em my friends after a while, even if it was kinda nasty. 😂

[@LeBongFairy]

@@sirensynapse5603 yum

[@2degucitas]

@@sirensynapse5603 The lady is a vamp

[@dubrd5926]

When I went to the east coast of the US many years ago I saw an infestation of bugs that looked exactly like lady bugs but they all would give a painful bite. They must not have been lady bugs. Wonder what they were.

[@lasercraft32]

Oh wow... You ever just have those moments where you just "unlock" an almost forgotten memory from your childhood? I totally forgot about the fact that Ladybug blood is yellow. As a kid I would sometimes try to pick them up, only for them to excrete small drops of yellow liquid onto my hand. My younger self thought it was them pooping on me.

[@Lazy_Fish_Keeper]

What happens when the aphids learn that the smell is not always accompanied by actual ladybird beetles eating them? Are there any other potentially unforseen (and potentially negative) side effects?

[@jmr]

I don't like the imported ones! They can bite. I never had the domestic ones bite me.

[@turmunkhganbaatar2515]

They're called ember bugs or tsog horhoi in Mongolian

[@catylotl]

love these little bugs sm also loving all the comments of other names for them!❤

[@tabisuematwiju5865]

They're lady bugs!!! Always will be lady bugs!!! Not lady bird beetles... It's not a bird!!! It's a lady bug!!!

[@jaybrower9009]

Hello. Did yiu know ladybugs bite? Like people? Not ravenously. But it does sting a liitle. I was a groundskeeper in Florida for more than 35 years. And, as I worked on Pittosporum, I had felt the a bite when these guys were on my fingers. Perhaps it was from their prey, which were not visible or from an excretion. But it did sting on more than one occasion.

[@sherrieludwig508]

I have handled them since childhood, I have only been bitten by the more orange-brown ones, which are an introduced species.

[@sjohnson4882]

I have been bitten by a lady bug.

[@nelsonx5326]

She's pretty, and then she dazzled me with science.

[@chrisprescott2273]

My grandpa called the red ones ladybugs and the brown ones potato bugs.

[@georgeburns7251]

What did he call you? Stink bug?

[@chrisprescott2273]

@@georgeburns7251 😆🤣

[@archiopterixkr]

En México también las conocemos como Catarinas

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

5:50 buying Local lady beetles (lady bugs) is a great thing to look for, too!

[@joedellinger9437]

1:24 Wait, so they aren’t bugs so we can’t call them lady bugs so we should call them lady birds so that means they are birds?!

[@sirensynapse5603]

Sara is cute as a ladybird beetle! 🐞

[@gem3132]

Argentina: "vaquita de San Antonio" / Spanish for "Saint Anthony's little cow".

[@psalvo8582]

I have been a motorcycle rider for over 35 years. Every once in a while a ladybird beetle will land on my cycle or on my glove and go along for the ride. Like so many of us, I consider it good luck!

[@jamesdooling4139]

30yrs ago, there was a vineyard somewhere in CA which promoted ladybug use as a natural pesticide. I think it was called Polonis/Polonus... They were far ahead of their time.

[@emmafaye]

How does the ladybug scent being distributed affect the ladybug population and reproduction? Does it increase reproduction or perhaps decrease because of a false lure?

[@ФАКДЕМОКРАТ]

In Russian they’re called “Bozhya korovka”, which translates to “Gods tiny cows”

[@georgealderson4424]

Too small to milk!

[@29jensen17]

Ladybug are called "Mariehøne", in danish. It can be translated to, first... the female name Marie, and høne means chicken. So Marie-chicken. Actually kind of weird. 😄

[@NormSimpson-iw5jr]

I had a 48 acre Citrus Farm. No Pesticides or chemicals. I bought big boxes of Lady bugs and had them shipped in, along with a guy who supplied me with big healthy Garden Spiders. My Fruit was always perfect and blemish free. No bad bugs on MY Farm...and chicken shit for Fertilizer.

[@JogBird]

the aphids are just hanging out while their siblings are being eaten alive

[@5points7019]

My 2-1/2 yr old grandson calls them "beetabugs"... he loves them.

[@jilltraver69]

My daughter used to collect them and bring inside before a big snow storm I'd have them flying around in the house all winter taking care of my plants