Some fascinating Facts and Symbolism of Ladybugs:
We're all familiar with the shiny, orange, black-spotted ladybug (lady beetle, actually), but these beneficial insects come in other colors as well. One is orange to bright red with few or no markings, one is gray to pale yellow with black markings, and there is also a solid, shiny black one. Unlike some other beneficial insects, even the larva eats the bad bugs. In addition to their noted taste for aphids, they also prey on some mites, scales, mealybugs, and other soft-bodied insects. The adults hibernate in garden litter. In the West, they migrate in fall to hibernate in the mountains.
 A Ladybug landing on a person will bring Good Fortune, and if one lands on you when you are ill, it takes the illness away.
If a ladybug lands on the hand of a recently married woman the number of dots on its back is the number of children she will have.
Let the Ladybug go and watch what direction it flys away to find your answer.
Finding a ladybug is good luck (the redder the better)
A ladybug on your clothing means you will soon get a new piece of clothing.
The number of spots on a ladybug indicated the number of happy months lay ahead.
Folklore suggests if you catch a Ladybug in your home, count the number of spots and that's how many dollars you'll soon find.
If a ladybug lands on your hand and then flies away, it said to be good weather on the following Sunday.
Killing a Ladybug is said to bring sadness and misfortune.
 To know the direction from which your future love will come catch a ladybug and chant the following:
"Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home
Your house is on fire and your children are gone."
which is also know as:
"Ladybug, ladybug, to your house you must turn.
Your house is on fire and your children may burn."
or
"Fly away east, Fly away west,
Show me where lives the one I love best."
Cultures all over the world associate the fabled Ladybug with Good Luck and Good Fortune.
For the English and French farmers it indicates good weather.
In Sweden and other countries the Ladybug will bring Good Luck with finding your true love.
Some Asian cultures believe that the Ladybug understands human language, and has been blessed by God.
In Europe, during the Middle Ages, insects were destroying the crops, so the Catholic farmers prayed to the Virgin Mary for help. Soon the Ladybugs came, ate the plant-destroying pests and saved the crops! The farmers began calling the ladybugs "The Beetles of Our Lady", and they eventually became known as "Lady Beetles"! The red wings represented the Virgin's cloak and the black spots represented her joys and sorrows.
"Please put the ladybug outside without harming her." ~Winston Churchill to his butler.
The ladybug is the Official State Bug of Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Ohio.
No claims are made on aforementioned Facts and Symbolic Meanings of Ladybugs.
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