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Now do a similar video on "Africanized" honey bees.

As someone going into the conservation field, I thought this video was extremely well done!! clear expiations and halting the spread of misinformation! great job!

I need every video on TH-cam to be exactly like this. This is PEAK

POV: That cute entomologist you went on a date with turned out to be a serial killer who's now ranting at you about ladybugs before feeding your corpse to his bugs. (Loved the video btw)

Alas, I have been educated. Thank you bug fellow. I hope you find a butterfly on your window tomorrow :)

Yeah the whole line with “non native/invasive” is really which one can we profit from😂. But in all serious it’s mind boggling how people can go up and down on why we must destroy this invasive but are totally ok with cats/honey bees. Which cause in all honesty more ecological distress then most animals label invasive.

I've been bit by a couole harlequin lady beetles before and it actually hurts quite a bit. In both instances, I wasn't even handling them, they just flew onto me and bit me right away.

I get tons of these lady bugs in my room. I noticed that letting them congregate in my ceiling corner causes more to gather so i stopped removing them. i think my group of bugs is beautiful ❤️ I have seven of them at a time typically:3 they are cute.. maybe they eat ants ? ants like to drink my soda cans the second i put em down i try to stay clean as possible but I've always got ants cause i like sugary treats! i don't know what the ladybugs eat but if they eat aphids they probably enjoy the ants huh

Good video. I appreciate the effort you put in. This is informative and entertaining

Fun fact: Lady Bugs are cannibalistic :3

Great video!

Because of the fear-mongering of these lady bugs, they made me scared to ever touch a lady bug. Shame on facebook gardening moms

Amazinf video!!!! So entertaining and educational!!! i will be spreading the good word of the lady bug 🫡

What a coincidence; I was just talking to my grandma about the different kinds of ladybug(and why they seem to love a specific trash can on my campus). Perfect time to find this video. Excellent video, I like your art a lot :D

so cute!

Some of my understanding was off and incomplete. I appreciate the nuance, and of course humans are responsible for introducing most invasive species, yeah? It can happen otherwise, but that's rare

i like your laptop stickers 😸

I've been having repeated dreams featuring golden cicadas as of recent

It's very true in the case of my Nana's House, tons of them invade in the fall and they smell terrible. Pretty sure other ladybugs come in too.

I literally never heard of this "distinction" between ladybugs where i live, any ladybug is just a pretty cool bug that helps with pest control. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Awww man, ladybird is a synonym for ladybug? I thought it was just a term of endearment for women, related to birds 😝

Man I love it when nerdy animators get to ramble on abt topics they find interesting in the most creative of ways. Hope your having a great time with lifr my guy ฅ^ω^ฅ

Listen I don't think any animal is evil, I don't hate the harlequin lady bugs. But oh my god I wish I could include a photo of the absurd number of them that were in my house in September. There was a week where we had to wear shoes inside because it was gross to accidentally step on them with bare feet and impossible to avoid all of them. There were so many on the windows, I could hear them walking on each other. I appreciate this video, it was really easy to watch and I always welcome a reminder to have empathy. But Jesus Christ they don't even make me mad, every year I'm just in utter shock that they can congregate in numbers like that. If the invasion lasted more than a few weeks a year I might have other thoughts.

Who tf thinks that a ladybug bite is worth mentioning as a dangerous trait? Like seriously, was this propaganda written by an aphid? I can not imagine any human actually getting harmed by a ladybug bite. And I was bitten by many bugs (including a giant aggressive caterpillar, centipedes and pretty big spiders) and I did not care about those that much despite being somewhat painful.

I just discovered the channel via this video, and decided to a quick Google search on native ladybugs in the US. The answer to that is the 9-spotted ladybug, which is native to North America and has been seeing a sharp population decline since the 1960s. I'm bringing this up for 2 reasons, the first being your comparison to the Harlequin Ladybug was the 7-spotted Ladybug, and the second is something that I think would have really helped your argument, mentioning the species actually native to the US as a comparison to the two non-native species mentioned in this video could have helped a bit more with the awareness on ladybugs in general and let viewers have a better idea of which species they should probably try to help bring up the population for if they are interested in that sort of project.

I've always loved ladybugs and try to save them whenever I see them in pools

Mmm I can see the similar with it between butterflys and moths minus the invasive species part how butterfly’s and moths are basically the same up prevent a few differences like the moth being active in the night and the butterfly being active in the day even though they are basically identical

This is why I signed up for TH-cam 10 years ago, all for this video casted upon my screen… and by Tithonous, was it worth it.

Hi Roswell, ecologist here! You made a nice video :) I did want to add some thoughts though: These ladybugs have two traits that make them notorious threats: 1) their voraciousness, which you mentioned, (although I'd add that ladybugs are notorious cannibals and will slurp up smaller ladybugs like nobody's business) and 2) Harlequin ladybirds reproduce at an incredibly fast rate. Other ladybugs can easily be outcompeted by the sheer mumber alone. These two things work together to make these a notorious threat for native ladybugs and other ecologically similar bugs. Note however, I am familiar with a setting that may be different to a standard urban American ecosystem. The native ladybugs in my country are really small, lay like 5 eggs in their lifetime, and are often picky when it comes to environmental conditions. Increasing harlequin ladybug populations could easily lead to their extinction in urban areas. We've already seen something similar due to invading Buff-tailed bumblebees. Anyway, I mention this because the alarm I feel about the presence of these bugs is in relation to my fragile ecosystem. Hopefully American ecosystems are more resilient. Either way, I don't think we need to actually start seeing native insect population declines to take action. We already know what this can lead to through similar cases of invasion. I reeeally loved your conclusions and definitely agree, but I very much rather tell people to eliminate non-native species like this one rather than risk it. But yeah I loved it! It's content like this that gets others excited for bugs and ecology ❤

I also ate a large amount of these as a kid and got sick so I can't judge the dog... awesome laptop sticker tho 🏳️‍⚧️!!! ;D

Whooaa! This is the first video I'm seeing from you! And I'm already impressed by the amount of reasearch put into this!! +1 sub!♡

"he can't even break skin" I recently picked up a drowning ladybug and he was on the back of my fingernail and within seconds he walked over to my cuticle and started munchin' away it didn't hurt at first but after like 10 seconds it started to sting

hell yeah

When I was little i had blood drawn with one of those things that clips your finger a lil bit but this one was made to look like a ladybug, I was afraid of ladybugs for years because of it, even now as an adult I’m still a little afraid of getting bit even though they’re harmless, stupid ladybug trauma

I'm sticking to Asian Lady Beetle, thank you very much. It's for the same reason I'm sticking to the football team name, The Chiefs. YOU are just too sensitive.

I was into the video until you started going on about xenophobia woke nonsense. No one cares. Just keep politics out of where they don't belong.

I didn't know Martin K. Blackwood took interest in ladybugs btw great video, very educational. I love the drawings :3

I clicked on this by accident but I'm so happy I ended up here

Really liked this video as a budding naturalist myself :) Next year I’m starting college as a conservation biology major focusing on birds and mammals :]

I have been bit by a lady bug, can attest that they don't break the skin. it's feel kinda like a small sharp stab, tiny, tiny stab feeling.

A lady beetle flew down my bra a few years ago and started biting me all over my tiddies so we're bitter enemies even though I don't do anything to them.

I love the art style here sm! Also your voice is ✨️gender envy✨️

I love this video SO MUCH. I see so much questionable pop-science info about insects especially that gets circulated around, so it's really nice to see someone setting the facts straight in such an appealing and accessible way. I'll definitely be linking to this video when I see people sharing charts like that!

A non-native species outcompeting the native species in it's environment is intrinsically never a good thing unless concretely proven otherwise. We don't know enough about the impacts of the species outside it's native habitat to be making complacent, pointlessly contrarian statements about them. Axyridis doesn't need a woobifying PR makeover.

Fellow bug lover! Your content is entertaining and informative! I loved this thank you ^^

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YESS ANOTHER INSECT LOVER SPOTTED. Also I feel like its worth mentioning that planting native species might encourage more native ladybug species since at the very least native plants provide a better habitat than non native grass lawns.

I will admit, I hate these guys a little more than is actually warranted. I'm simply tired of their swarms in my house every winter, filling my floors with disintegrating elytra and my lightbulbs with horrid *tink-tink-tink*ing as they repeatedly hit them. And not to mention their need to drown at least one per day in my fish tanks...

I knew ladybugs did the yellow gloop thing (ive seen them do it) so I never understood the charts, theyre just cherrypicking the traits they both share and attributing it as if they're different beings.

Epic