I held one on my finger and the next thing I felt was a burning pain on my finger. It had poo'd on me and left a hole on me! Apparently its acid!
Squish them all I say!!!!
2006-07-19 23:38:27 · 12 answers · asked by Les-Paul 3 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Careful!!!!! - If you squish 'em all you'll release all of that acid blood and burn a hole in the Earth causing it to spin off it's axis and crash into the sun!
Hang on a minute........nasty creature.......acid for blood.........ALIEN!!!!! Quick - call Sigourney Weaver!!!!!!!!
2006-07-19 23:51:40 · answer #1 · answered by The Wandering Blade 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sure why not... as long as your don't mind being smothered in greenfly and blackfly instead. Ladybirds and their larvae eat stacks of plant pests like greenfly and blackfly and without them many areas would be overrun with these pests - or we'd have to use toxic insecticides to control them instead.
Personally I'd say the very slight risk of being pooped on by a ladybird is preferable to a mouthful of greenfly or a lungful of chemicals.
2006-07-19 23:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be silly.
Ladybirds perform a critical role in keeping the number of aphids down; to kill all the ladybirds would mean all the plants would wither and die.
And they're pretty, too.
If you had such a reaction to the beetle's poo, then I'd recommend you don't invite them onto your hand again...
2006-07-19 23:42:35 · answer #3 · answered by relentless_behaviour 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love ladybirds (if anyone calls them ladybugs I'm gonna get angry!!)
They are wicked, I didn't know they had highly acidic poo though, I'll be careful next time I pick them up for my niece and nephew to sing the ladybird song.
2006-07-20 00:07:30 · answer #4 · answered by As You Like It 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't eliminate ladybirds, eliminate flies. However, the food chain might collapse so if removing flies from the food chain has very little/no negative effect, then I'm fine with it.
2006-07-19 23:46:57 · answer #5 · answered by hawaiian_shorts91 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are part of the food chain just leave them alone we have already messed up the environment enough. Wouldn't it be better to eliminate mosquitoes?
2006-07-19 23:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by kiss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! I disagree....Ladybirds should NOT be eliminated...THEY SHOULD BE LAMINATED! Get rid of them all! and wasps, and bees, and worms, and eels, and anyone or anything with more than 4 legs!
2006-07-20 01:43:25 · answer #7 · answered by Mushroom Number 9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lady birds are good they help to keep the aphids (greenfly etc)population down because if they were allowed to get out of hand they would eat every thing in the fields and you would be going hungry
2006-07-19 23:58:05 · answer #8 · answered by keny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theyre living creatures and have as much right to be here as well as you. without them, the aphids would take over everything and before you know it the world would just be covered in them!!!
sorry it pooed on you, but it probably had its reasons!! lol
2006-07-19 23:43:06 · answer #9 · answered by Vix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As if!
If anything needs eliminating it's those pesky giant ants you get in old '50's sci-fi films. I mean, do we really need them?
2006-07-20 00:02:49 · answer #10 · answered by Jaydee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋