WTF? A BLACK ladybug? o_o

yep, I was just like that too, OMGWTF?!?! ... hence why I just felt the need to take the pic' right then... even without a better size ref', before it could fly away.

Yeah, I have NEVER seen a black one before! :o

Actually, the ladybug family has around 5,000 species in it in various colors and patterns. Here are just a few examples:
http://cdn-7.ladybug-life-cycle.com.....cs/types-s.jpg
http://www.keith-allen.co.uk/garden.....adybirds02.jpg

i've seen ones that are black with red dots

like where the black spots on a red ladybug are so big/too big, to where they meet together, and leave only little red areas between them, that look like little red star/gem shapes?

I have seen those too, though the fist orange, yellow, and black ones; were far more of a wtf factor.

yeah i know, i think its because they have different species, that or slight genetic mutations

It's eeeeeeeeeevil!

yep, genetically speaking...

Never seen one these before. Cool! Once in the fall, I was on the campus of one of the local colleges. it was a mild day, September, and I noticed a SWARM of ladybugs covering the doorframe of a doorway! weird! Maybe they just liked being in the sunlight...

with this one, it's most likely just that the "black spots" are so over size, that they cover it's whole shell.

my mom and dad live out in the middle of nowhere, so they still have areas of ledge near their house, that some times get covered in SWARMS of ladybugs...
as does my aunt's; tea and dinning room, at her old farm-house. (though, she hates it.)

ladybugs like to hang out where it's; warm, sunny, and there might be food... in cold weather.

we actually had some; that would sneak into this old college greenhouse, that I worked at once.... they'd do so every fall, so the greenhouse staff; knew that they didn't have to buy any of them in, over the winter.

nevermind I confused things XD

neverminded,

mugs, bugs, and manly men, can naturally be confusing.