Vicious bloody ladybirds
Those funny, fat foreign orange ones with too many spots - surprised the Daily Mail isn't up in arms about these evil immigrants, eating all our aphids while pushing native ladybirds out, anyway....

They bite, the nasty little fuckers bite, and it stings. They are not cute or nice and their earwax smell is so much stronger than native ladybirds.

They look strange and sinister and they are too round.

Oh and they eat other ladybirds, deviant cannibalistic little bastards.....

I now have The Fear, particularly as they congregate in large numbers in my window frame - they are the chavs of the insect world!

Ugh
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(Beklet is inexplicably angry, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 13:52, 6 replies)

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ladybugs can bite?!?

I have played with many a ladybug and never had them do anything but crawl around on me and fly off...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 25 Apr 2008, 13:54, closed)

It that
the Harlequin ladybird?
www.harlequin-survey.org/factfile/concern.htm
images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&q=Harlequin+ladybird&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

edit: RL - yeah these pricks can bite. You're unlikely to lose a limb or even require stitches though.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 13:55, closed)

Yeah
@Loon - yeah they can bite - only a nip but there's just no need for it. Wasps are bad enough!

Yes it's the Harlequin ladybird, nasty little sods, it's Spring so they'll be back infesting my window frame again this year suppose I'd better clear out last years corpses....
(Beklet is inexplicably angry, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 14:03, closed)

They are
The headline was something like "Panic as Asians invade". As amigious as ever there. I'm sure the readers just read the headlines and then start viciously spitting.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 14:10, closed)

Saw the recognition giude for these
It said, basically: size - variable, color - variable, pattern - variable. Well, that's helpful.

Also, have a repost from last time this QotW tipped up:

I and my family got attacked by ladybirds*.

Yup. Ordinary black and red ladybirds.

One holiday in Norfolk (1976, I think), we were on the beach at Holkham, and a swarm came over - thousands of them, no, millions. They were obviously very hungy, and not having any aphids on which to sup, turned their attentions to us.

We had to pack up and go home, hiding under towels.

* That's "ladybugs" for the Atlantically Challenged.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 14:12, closed)

Invasion
I seen something on telly about this so called invasion of foreign ladybirds to British shores.

Apparently, they're bigger, they breed better and they eat more greenfly so they're forcing our puny little ladybirds out.

Well fuck me! Surely that's just evolution in progress?!?!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 17:13, closed)