skelelegs:

wildlife-rehabilitator:

skelelegs:

littlestwarrior:

zooophagous:

Ladybugs got ruined for me by those invasive beetles that look like them.

Those invasive beetles are horrible! We walked through a patch of them earlier this year. There were thousands. They were all over our clothes and stuff.

After that I started noticing a few in the house. Not that many. But I’ve heard stories of peoples houses being infested with them!

Apparently here in TN, some officials thought it would be great to release these beetles to combat the aphid situation. Now we just have a bunch of invasive beetles instead of aphids.

The worst part about those fake ladybugs is that they die en mass in your lamps and they sttiiiinnnnk.

What ‘invasive beetles’?

Basically they’re an orange beetle that looks like the American ladybird. They were introduced to the US (because nobody’s learned the lesson about introducing non-native species yet, I guess) and the beetles will get into your house somehow. They will bite you, which feels a bit like a pinprick, and die in light sources (lamps, ceiling lights, windows, etc). They smell gross. Like rotten burning hair…

Here’s what a pest control website has to say about them: https://www.creaturecontrol.net/insect-pest-control/asian-lady-bug/