Ladybugs may be the cutest insects around, but they don’t start off that way. Also called lady beetles or ladybirds, they pop out of their eggs as prickly mini-monsters with an insatiable hunger for ...

Called ladybugs by most of us, they have gone by several other names too; "Lord God's Little Fatty" in Switzerland, "Flower Lady" in China and "Moses Cow" in Hebrew. Each fall, adult ladybugs gather ...