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Thu 9 May, 2013 01:40 pm
Took this video and edited together the other day because I liked this little bug. When I poked it gently with my finger it also emitted a yellow fluid from its back. Can you help me identify it?
@lacampbell76,
I hope someone can give you an answer. The video should be helpful.
@lacampbell76,
Cool video, lacampbell. I first thought, oh, some caterpiller - but where it's lurking makes me wonder. I'm no expert but maybe Rosborne will know. I'll pm him to look at this thread.
@lacampbell76,
lacampbell76 wrote:Took this video and edited together the other day because I liked this little bug. When I poked it gently with my finger it also emitted a yellow fluid from its back. Can you help me identify it?
It looks like a Ladybug Larvae to me.
@rosborne979,
Thats it! Thanks so much!
@lacampbell76,
lacampbell76 wrote:Thats it! Thanks so much!
You're welcome. Ladybug Larvae are predatory bugs, which in many ways are more interesting that mere grazers. You might also like Jumping Spiders which I always found very fun to watch.
@rosborne979,
rosborne979 wrote:It looks like a Ladybug Larvae to me.
Over here we call them Ladybirds. Perhaps you can answer one of those funny little questions that buzz round the back of one's head from time to time. As Ladybird is a British term and Ladybug an American one, why didn't Lyndon Johnson's wife call herself Ladybug Johnson?
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:Over here we call them Ladybirds. Perhaps you can answer one of those funny little questions that buzz round the back of one's head from time to time. As Ladybird is a British term and Ladybug an American one, why didn't Lyndon Johnson's wife call herself Ladybug Johnson?
Hell, I don't even know why she called herself Ladybird.
@rosborne979,
It's just one of life's mysteries I suppose.
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:As Ladybird is a British term and Ladybug an American one, why didn't Lyndon Johnson's wife call herself Ladybug Johnson?
Ladybird Johnson got her nickname from her nurse, Alice Tittle, when she was an infant.
"purty as a ladybird"
@Ticomaya,
Why not 'Purty as a ladybug?'
Ms. Tittle was an Anglophile.
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