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awww ...                                    from flikie.com

One by one, our darlings are shown to have feet of clay. Thomas Jefferson had a slave mistress. A-Rod took steroids. The ladybug (yes, that adorable round red or orange beetle with black freckles, the gardener's little friend) is nothing more than a promiscuous, disease-ridden, mite-infested little cannibal that doesn't really help in the garden as much as one might have been led to believe: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150506-the-truth-about-ladybirds