When people first began to wear clothing, about 60,000 years ago, they didn't sew it at all: they just wrapped leather or furs around themselves. Probably they soon began to tie their clothes on with string or leather cords.
The ladybug is a predator of destructive insects like aphids that can attack flowers, and especially vegetable plants. This natural predisposition as a predator of garden pests raised the ladybug to the status role of a beneficial insect for any garden.
October means season for invasion of the ladybugs. The Asian lady beetles make their way indoors at this time of the year, looking for warm spots. For most of the year they are a welcome army that defends leafy crops from Kittery to Eastport. But every October, ladybugs march into homes and businesses, clinging to walls and ceilings, hoping to find somewhere warm to spend the winter.