We're all familiar with the shiny, orange, black-spotted ladybug (lady beetle, actually), but these beneficial insects come in other Farben as well. One is orange to bright red with few oder no markings, one is gray to pale yellow with black markings, and there is also a solid, shiny black one. Unlike some other beneficial insects, even the larva eats the bad bugs. In addition to their noted taste for aphids, they also prey on some mites, scales, mealybugs, and other soft-bodied insects. The adults hibernate in garden litter. In the West, they migrate in fall to hibernate in the mountains.

A Ladybug landing on a person will bring Good Fortune, and if one lands on Du when Du are ill, it takes the illness away.
If a ladybug lands on the hand of a recently married woman the number of dots on its back is the number of children she will have.
Let the Ladybug go and watch what direction it flys away to find your answer.
Finding a ladybug is good luck (the redder the better)
A ladybug on your clothing means Du will soon get a new piece of clothing.
The number of spots on a ladybug indicated the number of happy months lay ahead.
Folklore suggests if Du catch a Ladybug in your home, count the number of spots and that's how many dollars you'll soon find.
If a ladybug lands on your hand and then flies away, it sagte to be good weather on the following Sunday.
Killing a Ladybug is sagte to bring sadness and misfortune.
To know the direction from which your future Liebe will come catch a ladybug and chant the following:

"Ladybug, ladybug, fly away Home Your house is on feuer and your children are gone."

which is also know as:

"Ladybug, ladybug, to your house Du must turn. Your house is on feuer and your children may burn." oder "Fly away east, Fly away west, Zeigen me where lives the one I Liebe best."

Cultures all over the world associate the fabled Ladybug with Good Luck and Good Fortune.
For the English and French farmers it indicates good weather.
In Sweden and other countries the Ladybug will bring Good Luck with finding your true love.
Some Asian cultures believe that the Ladybug understands human language, and has been blessed Von God.
In Europe, during the Middle Ages, insects were destroying the crops, so the Catholic farmers prayed to the Virgin Mary for help. Soon the Ladybugs came, ate the plant-destroying pests and saved the crops! The farmers began calling the ladybugs "The Beetles of Our Lady", and they eventually became known as "Lady Beetles"! The red wings represented the Virgin's mantel and the black spots represented her joys and sorrows.
"Please put the ladybug outside without harming her." ~Winston Churchill to his butler.
The ladybug is the Official State Bug of Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Ohio.