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Protection Against Predators Insects that eat ladybugs include dragonflies, ants, and parasitic wasps. The main way that ladybugs protect themselves against predators is through the color of their body. This sign is used by other insects and animals such as frogs and alerts predators that they will be toxic if eaten.

Like any sensible insect, they want to hibernate in a warm, comfortable spot over the cold months of winter. Ladybugs don’t eat fabric, plants, paper or any other household items. They like to eat aphids. Ladybugs, while trying to hibernate in your house, live off of their own body fats.

Ladybugs will eat a wide variety of insects. It is true, ladybugs can and do eat spiders! Not only will they eat spiders, but they will also eat the eggs they lay too.

Introduce ladybugs to your garden. They keep spiders and other bugs away by feasting on them. These brightly colored beetles also eliminate the food that other bugs sustain on, thereby forcing them to find their home elsewhere.

As far as bugs go, ladybugs have a pretty sterling reputation. But, there’s actually a bad kind of ladybug out there-ones that can bite and be aggressive, are harmful to dogs, invade your home, and leave behind a foul-smelling yellowish secretion that can stain walls and furniture.

(Side note: it is against the law in Tennessee to kill ladybugs, although it’s not against the law to kill those brown Asian/Japanese ladybugs.) The only thing you can do is spray the OUTSIDE of your house at the end of summer.

Because they eat aphids and other insects, lady bugs are considered “Beneficial,” and so people don’t want to kill them (some gardeners even BUY them to put into their gardens). Since they are beneficial and not a typical “Household Pest,” the myth grew that they are “Protected.”

Ladybugs can be a nuisance when they enter into a structure, but it is not illegal to kill them. Ladybugs are beneficial. They can help with eating other bugs that tend to feed on plants. There is one species that is a concern to plant health, and that is a yellowish species called the Mexican Bean Beetle.

Ladybugs are generally associated with Good Fortune and Good Luck. They bring with them a sense of Future Prosperity. Their bright and Colourful look, along with their happy-go-lucky travels means living life without boundaries.

If a Ladybug has landed on you, then you might have thought they pooped on you. In fact, they probably just allowed some toxins, in the form of their blood to leak out. It smells bad, and it would taste even worse – certainly to predators. This is called ‘Reflex Bleeding’ and is a common defense mechanism for Ladybugs.