ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — You went outside, felt how beautiful it was, and said to yourself, “This is the perfect weekend to set up those Halloween decorations.” You start to get some stuff up, and then you feel a little bite.
You might have come face to face with an Asian Lady Beetle! They make look like a ladybug, however, Asian Lady Beetles can be slightly larger and come in various shades of red and orange. Another way to tell the two apart is by looking at the bug’s head. The Asian Lady Beetles have a noticeable “M” marking near its shell.
“They’re bad because there’s so many of them and they’re invasive,” Ric Arguello, an exterminator at Babes Termites and Pest Control said. “In the fall, they get into people’s homes and businesses and everything.”…