Ladybug

The Ladybug is the State Bug of Massachusetts.

Ladybug legends:

• If you hold a Ladybug while making a wish, the direction that it flies away indicates where the answer to your wish will come from.
• In folk medicine, Ladybugs were ground up to cure toothaches, measles, stomach aches, and crying babies.
• In Switzerland, the Ladybug is the baby-deliverer (just as the stork is in the US).
• In Brussels, the number of spots on a Ladybug foretells how many children the person holding it will have.
• Certain Asian cultures believe that Ladybugs can understand human languages.
• In Belgium, it was believed that if a Ladybug crawled across a young woman's hand, she would be married within a year.
• People believed that if a Ladybug with less than seven spots was seen, the harvest would be good for that season; if it had more than seven, there would be famine.
• In Norway, if a man and a woman see a Ladybug at the same time, romance will blossom between them.
• A Norse legend states that the Ladybug came to Earth riding on a bolt of lightening.
• Legend says that if you find a Ladybug in your house, count the number of spots it has and that will be how many dollars you will find.
• People in France believed that if a Ladybug landed on someone, it would take away whatever ailment the person had when it flew away.
• The number of spots seen on a Ladybug indicates how many months it will be before one finds romance.
• Many Bretons believe that the arrival of Ladybugs indicates fair weather.
• In Ireland, the Ladybug is said to be a symbol of protection.