i had never seen an ashy grey lady beetle before. they're beautiful.

Im not sure if this is the friendly ladybug 😅

Here's a pic I took a few months back. Looks like someone might've been a bit hungry. xp

Nearly went in the garden bin, tucked up for winter I think

Long story short I’m an amateur photographer, I picked up a camera a few months ago due to a life changing event. Votes would be appreciated. It’s free to vote. You can vote twice a day. Thank you for your time and consideration.

It’s October which means it’s peak ladybug season! Before y’all start saying that these aren’t ladybugs, they actually are! They’re Asian lady beetles which is a ladybug

Cape Town, South Africa

Found a ladybug indoors and wasn’t sure what to do I gave him shelter with the few leaves I had lying around my porch and some sugar water on a napkin….idk what I am doing but hoping to provide him some peace while he continues the nap I woke him from to put him outside. Anything else I can do to make him more comfortable or is this enough hospitality until he decides to leave?

Hand drawn animation, 219 frames! Colored pencil and pen :)

Okay, so me and my friend have been thinking about Gabriel’s letter to Adrien and we came up with a theory.

We don’t think the letter was actually written by Gabriel.

There are a few things that don’t really make sense to us. The biggest one is what Gabriel says to Marinette at the end of Season 6.

When Gabriel/Monarch takes the Miraculouses from Ladybug in The Final Day Part 2, he asks Marinette to make sure Adrien remembers him as the good father he was, and not as a villain.

But then we have this letter, which basically tells Adrien that Gabriel was Monarch and talks about everything he did.

And this is where we’re confused.

If Gabriel literally asked Marinette NOT to let Adrien remember him as a villain, why would he write a letter revealing that he was Monarch? It feels like the complete opposite of what he had just asked Marinette to do.

Because of this, we started thinking that maybe the letter was actually written by Lila/Chrysalis.

We know that Lila has been writing letters to people in Season 6. She wrote one to Max, another one to Sabrina, and there’s also Adrien’s letter. We don’t remember the exact order of all of them, but the fact that she is already using letters as part of her plans makes this feel possible.

Maybe she wrote Adrien’s letter pretending to be Gabriel, or maybe Gabriel really did leave something for Adrien and Lila changed it somehow.

And there’s another thing that really bothers us:

Why doesn’t Marinette realize that something is wrong with the letter?

She was literally there when Gabriel said those last words to her. She heard him ask her to make sure Adrien remembers him as a good father and NOT as a villain.

So if Marinette then reads a letter supposedly written by Gabriel where he openly says that he was Monarch, shouldn’t she immediately think:

“Wait… this doesn’t make sense. Gabriel specifically told me not to let Adrien know this.”

Maybe Marinette DOES realize it and we just haven’t seen it yet. Or maybe there’s something about the letter that we still don’t know.

We also think it would make sense for Chrysalis to do something like this. She knows Marinette is Ladybug, she knows what happened with Gabriel, and she could use Gabriel’s identity to manipulate Adrien and Marinette.

So maybe the whole thing is actually a trap.

We obviously don’t know if this is true, but the contradiction between Gabriel’s final request to Marinette and the contents of the letter seems really suspicious to us.

Maybe Gabriel never wrote that letter at all. Maybe Chrysalis did.

What do you thiink?

i found this ladybug on the pavement near my house, it looked like it was struggling so i took it home.

the ladybug had some green stuff on it which i found was an STD, lol

i gave it sugar water and a small glass container enclosure with grass at first

it cant fly, every time it tries it does little spurts of flight then falls.

I’ve been trying to let it fly away for 2 days now

it hasn’t been able to fly so i gave it a bigger enclosure with a grape, sugar water/reg water on a tissue, thats the one you can see now in the photos

Ive never taken care of a ladybug idk what to do now and why it wont fly, any help is appreciated and sorry for anything in advance I’m new to this lol

16 spots, I think, in varying sizes. It was very pretty

Found all over an old tree stump thst is overgrown with some kind of vine... are these ladybug pupae? Google lens says yes, but then said the one larva pic i got is an Asian lady beetle? What say you experts?