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.
The ladybugs, or more precisely, multicolor Asian lady beetles, are making their pilgrimage indoors at this time of year, and to homeowners in southern Maine, they are sometimes unwelcome when they cluster around windows and doors seeking warm spots.