Lady bugs..

I've researched the thought of poisonous ladybugs online, there's no such thing as a poisonous ladybug to humans, though brighter ones are more toxic...but they'll have adverse effects to only smaller animals. However they are foul-tasting to humans, should you eat one.
 
Dr. Mario said:
Eh, I find impaling more unnecessary brutal than squishing or swatting them.

Also, where did you get the idea that yellow ladybugs with black spots are poisonous? Unless you eat them, I guess. They're no poison dart frogs.
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it was kinda accidental. I wanted to scare it away, or at least flick it off the table, but it just happened. also, they aren't? people have been telling me that for the longest time... it appears i have been lied to.
 
Blow them off the table? I like doing that.

And that's why you need to view things like that critically. For me, this is the first time I've heard people think ladybugs are dangerous to humans. Really, if their poison was extremely prolific like, a poison dart frog or a black widow (even the harmless common cellar spider, which have been the subject of poison myths), I'd know about it... eh?
 
I've heard stupider things from people.

Like they think ladybugs pee on people when it's actually their breaking their joints and bleeding, the number of spots tells a ladybug's age, and several other stupid things. I used to think ladybugs pee, but I was a child.
 
Besides you REALLY have to piss ladybugs off for them to bite you. They're not aggressive insects who would like to attack you.
 
Quite often, there's always been a group of five or so flies flying around the exact same area in my dining room - just under the chandelier. Whenever they're there, it's always at least four, and they're always only flying in this small area directly underneath it. I'm not sure why they're doing that. It's kinda weird.
 
Our house is light colored and faces the west so swarms of them gather on our front porch during a certain season. It's beyond annoying. Also, aren't their blood acidic or something?
 
i havent seen ladybugs in years, although judging from this topic and its posts they're quite annoying and perhaps even formidable.

Although i hate all bugs, they need to die.
 
Zae Eildus said:
they're quite annoying and perhaps even formidable.
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they're neither of those things whatsoever, people just get really emotional about bugs

all they do is wander around plants, eat smaller bugs and fly around.

sometimes they land on you somewhere and you can flick them off, or in a lot of cases they fly off themselves