A collection of multicolored Asian lady beetlesALBANY, N.Y. -- You may be bugging out over a particular visitor to your home - the multicolored Asian lady beetle.
Our summer rains made the insects extremely prevalent this year, clinging to doors, cars and inside homes.
NEWS10 spoke with DEC state pathologist Dr. Ward Stone.
He says the yellow, ladybug-like creatures are perfectly harmless.
We asked him how they get inside our homes and what they're looking for.
"They look for cracks, like up into the attic, they're down into the basement; some place where they can get in and spend a warm, but not too warm, winter. Then in spring, they go back outside and start another ladybug generation."
Stone says the beetles are actually good working bugs who eat other insects such as aphids.
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