A ladybug walking on the hand of a Swedish girl is said to be measuring it for wedding gloves and in Canada, ladybugs wintering in your garage mean good luck.
Bugs are the largest order of animals on earth, with 290,000 species of bugs worldwide. There are a lot of bugs on this planet.
Over 170 species of ladybug have been brought to North America to help in the fight against pests. How helpful! They are super great for us. And wow that's a lot of species.
Ladybugs have a cousin, the Mexican bean bug, who is the black sheep of the family, a pest on crops. How mean of him.
Hibernating groups have been found with as many as 10,000 individual ladybugs. That's a lot more than when bears hibernate...
