One season a few years ago, our ladybugs started biting. I was convinced that it was something else biting while ladybugs were visible.

Nope. Turns out that a beetle that looks like ladybugs was released by the ag dept (this is the story as I heard it..might not be exactly accurate) to eat a fungus that was killing soybeans.

I think it's pretty sad that we can't even trust ladybugs anymore.

The new ones are consistently oranger/brownish, smell terrible and taste as bad as they smell when they fall in a bowl of popcorn that you happen to be eating in a dimly lit room.