VERIFY: Yes, these small ladybug lookalikes can be harmful for your pet

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/verify/asian-beetles-making-your-dog-sick-maryland-virginia-dc-asian-bug-beetles/65-8630b436-16bf-414e-b929-2e0b5351b9cb

They look like ladybugs, but they are something totally different! And it turns out, they can make your pets sick.

ANSWER: Yes, they can be harmful if enough are consumed.

The American Veterinary Medical Association

The ASPCA Poison Control Center

More at link.

[doc03]

1. I have them show up every fall the first sunny day after the first hard frost.

I have to spray the entire outside of the house with poison every year or the house is full of them all winter.
I can verify they don't taste good I have eaten a couple with my Special K. They also bite if they get you on your neck or the inside of your arm it stings but not as much as a bee sting.

[SheltieLover]

4. Yuk

When they 1st appeared in Chicago burbs years ago, pretty sure I read that these are genetically engineered to control some other pest.

[doc03]

6. The story is they were brought here from Asia buy the

agriculture people in Georgia to kill aphids on pecan trees.
They were not supposed to survive the winters in the north. But they adapted by moving indoors. You can't fool mother nature.

[SheltieLover]

7. Thx

No, one certainly cannot fool Mother Nature.

[royable]

2. Ladybugs bite as well. I speak from experience. n/t

[Siwsan]

3. I've seen them outside, on the windows

Madoc is obsessed with trying to catch them so I'll keep an eye on any getting inside.

[SheltieLover]

5. Great idea!

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Comparison picture:

[SheltieLover]

9. Ty!