Asian Lady Beetles burrow in dogs' mouths

[bluemingidiot]

While they are seemingly harmless, the beetles are known to burrow into warm, moist places. One of their favorite spots to hide? Your dogs mouth. "They latch onto the roofs of the dogs mouths and it's hard to remove them - you have to do them by one by one with tweezers.

WARNING, gross picture!

www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Asian-Beetles-disguised-as-lady-bugs-are-not-your-13441902.php?ipid=hpctp

I'm curious as to why they wouldn't burrow in a cat's or a child's mouth?

[vickinal]

Poor dogs. That is awful.

[countrymom22]

That is just gross! Poor dog!

[feather]

I'm not going to even look at that picture. I'm sure it is gross.
We are fighting asian beetles and shield bugs (stink bugs, aka stone bugs) in the house, killing them at a rate of 3 per day. MY Dh tells me each day how he has saved my life (by killing 3 bugs). So good to have a hero.

[Maura]

I hate those things. They were imported by our government because our local ladybugs weren't doing a good enough job of eating aphids. They failed to tell the farmers this. Those bugs have ended up being picked up during harvest and ruining crops. And, they bite. Poor dog.

[feather]

This is from 2014 in Utah, harvesting wheat or stray/hay, I dunno.

Look at the green stuff on the tractor.

Those are mostly aphids.

This is a close up of the aphids and either lady bugs or asian beetles.

[Maura]

That photo shows both asian beetles and American ladybugs.

[feather]

Jan 6, 2019 17:01:24 GMT Maura said:

That photo shows both asian beetles and American ladybugs.

I looked up comparisons and they were kind of difficult to figure out, which was which and to be sure about it. I was pretty amazed at the amount of aphids on the tractor.

I showed DH the picture of the dog, and then that night he dreamt that the asian beetles were trying to get in his mouth or nose and woke up twice dreaming that bad dream!

[paquebot]

That picture needs 100 times more Asian beetles to make a dent in those aphids. Talked to an ag field rep at their peak around 15 years ago and he said that some bean fields looked like they were alive from so much aphid and beetles movement. About the same time the beetles invaded the city and I got bit numerous times. Everyone figured that the futue looked bad. Haven't seen one since.

Martin

[ceresone]

They taste terrible too!!! Take it from someone who didn't notice it in my coffee cup!!