Ladybugs can reach 3,600 feet in altitude. Typical ladybug flights can last anywhere from 36 minutes to two hours. The hard shell functions as a necessary stabilizer for high-speed travel. Ladybugs ...

This is just so cool. I love how the dotted red shells split and then the wings slowly swing out and then begin to flap and the ladybug takes flight like some sophisticated alien space ship that’s ...

When people think of bugs they generally think of gross pests that need to be kept at a distance. The farther away, the better. But insects, especially flying ones, have a strange, gross beauty to ...

Many people have seen a little ladybug split open its hard shiny spotted shells — a hard case called an elytra — to reveal its true wings before it flies away. The whole event is somewhat surprising ...