Is this a ladybug? (picture)

[Seamaiden]

Look at the picture again, the picture the OP put up has a black bug with red/orange spots, not a red/orange bug with black spots. Unless my eyes are a whole lot worse than I realize.

 

[Picasso345]

Hard to tell. I took it as orange with those black spots running together. Could be the other way I guess too. It's springtime and I got those Asian Lady Beetles waking up and they are everywhere.

 

[Skee08]

Talk all the smack you want that thing looks absolutly nothing like a lady bug. I think that one chick had it right its probably a dog!

 

[Picasso345]

Here is a site that shows the wide variety of these bugs. Many variations contrary to what some 55 post angry bug experts might claim. Harlequin Ladybird Survey - Recognition and Distinction

 

[Skee08]

Ra Ra Ra Fifty Six 56 Ra Ra Ra

 

[40acres]

You did get clowned bro. That is really funny.

 

[jackinthebox]

Here is a site that shows the wide variety of these bugs. Many variations contrary to what some 55 post angry bug experts might claim. Harlequin Ladybird Survey - Recognition and Distinction

wow awesome post, thanks for the chart, let me have a look and ill tell you which one I think it was. Dosnt really matter now tho, I already let the guy go.

 

[jackinthebox]

alright its either the bottom left one, or the one 2nd row from the bottom third to the right.

 

[jackinthebox]

I think what you got here is an Asian Lady Beetle. Some parts of America are experiencing an epidemic the past few years. Between the late 1910’s and the mid-1970's, there were several planned and accidental introductions to the U.S., with no survival. Many planned releases across the eastern U.S. in the late 1970's and early 1980's were attempts to use the beetles to help control aphids and scales. After years without a sighting, the beetle was seen in Louisiana in 1988. Whether this final, successful colonization was due to a planned release or an accidental introduction is under debate. Invasion Biology Introduced Species Summary Project - Columbia University

freakin me out now, should I have killed that thing!?!?!?! they dont eat pets do they? ooo fuck, what have I done.....

 

[HippiePower]

WOW you need to get outside more..nature is awesome.

 

[jackinthebox]

lol who me? im always outside, I guess I just dont pay enough attention to the little guys = 0

bugs are pretty damn cool tho, lookin at all the different types of bugs... pretty crazy

nature is awesome <3

 

[Picasso345]

wow awesome post, thanks for the chart, let me have a look and ill tell you which one I think it was. Dosnt really matter now tho, I already let the guy go.

Cool. I bet you see more.

 

[Seamaiden]

Here is a site that shows the wide variety of these bugs. Many variations contrary to what some 55 post angry bug experts might claim. Harlequin Ladybird Survey - Recognition and Distinction

I think jack's ladybug looks like the one on the very bottom left of the attachment you put up.

 

[Pookiedough]

Seamaiden I will keep an eye out for info on your bugs,those wasps though what color are they?

 

[Seamaiden]

The wasps at home are of many types, yellow, black, black with a definite blue cast to them (like blue bottle flies?), black with red wings. The wasps out here in Micronesia are... rusty-colored. I haven't gotten close enough to one to really see.

 

[smppro]

Maybe i could hook you up with my 3 year old nieces email you can run the rest of you questions past her before you waste my bandwidth again.

Maybe your niece could explain bandwidth to you