Ladybug takes a bath

This video shows an Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), cleaning her appendages. Although a helpful garden predator, this species is an invasive species in the United States. Ladybugs are a type of beetle and belong to the insect order Coleoptera. Looking closely you can see the exoskeleton, movement of jointed appendages and the hooked foot adaptations for climbing and securing prey.

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• ladybug
• lady
• beetle
• bug
• insect
• magnified
• microscope
• zoom
• coleoptera
• adaptation
• exoskeleon
• appendages
• science

[fieryhand]

So many of these things are at my house! >:(

[ambookco]

@fieryhand I know the feeling, but they are very good for your plants.

[ilovemyself633]

how the fuck did i get here

[Popstarox100]

@MelanieRosieT ikr i really want pet bugs...annd i do at the momments a cute... cockroach a dead dung beetle (i think they had a fight and i saw the cockroac eating it or something) and i have some kind of christalis (i call it crystal) with a web or something but i dont know what it is...it might be a spiders egg thing but im scared i might kill a butterfly if i cut it open and also it would just be gross

[MelanieRosieT]

@fieryhand luckkyyyyyyyyy