11 Jan 2011 - A white ladybug

On the 11th of Jan we found one of the most interesting things, a white lady bug! Funny thing was it was in the girls room on the inside of her window ledge at the top. We were laying on her bed and I looked up towards the top where the blinds were and saw something moving like a bug. Low and behold it's a white lady bug! So of course we had to capture it and move it to our poinsettia.

At first I thought maybe it was sick and in the process of dying, or maybe it was a winter ladybug, but apparently....

"There are a great many different species of ladybugs in the United States and around the world. While our most familiar kind is the Convergent Ladybird Beetle, a medium sized species with orange wings and black spots on the wings, there is a wonderful variety of sizes and colors in this group. They range in size from the head of a pin to around ½" across. Their colors are from orange to red to black to white. Variations are white with black spots, black with red spots, red with black spots, red with no spots, gray with red head, and others "

(paragraph above is from buginfo.com) here is the link if you interested.
http://buginfo.com/article.cfm?id=18

and here is pic from the Internet of what our ladybug looked like close up.

Just a really neat find!!