Do you know what bug this is?

Question

Ok, i know for a fact that they mate ALOT!!! And when they mate they connect there butts. And the like 2 cm long, and there harmless i know that...there every where in my backyard, and somtimes i see a little bit in my house. They fly, and there blaack and red. Its not your average ladybug i know that! But if you can please awnser my question.i'll give you a the best rate ever, if you can awnser AND post a link with a picture that you might think it is, and if it is, then high rate for you. PLEASE awnser my question!!!

Answer 1

it could be a red cross beetle?

http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/bimg1...

there are a ton of black and red insects, here is a good website to help you with identifying it.

http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/#cole...

Answer 2

CLOVERFIELD!!

:O

Answer 3

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamantine/...

Maybe a milkweed bug.

Answer 4

Lots of bugs here -

http://www.insectimages.org/

http://greennature.com/article1899.html

http://www.einsteins-emporium.com/life/a...

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

Answer 5

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/... .... wonder if this is it .. a beetle...remember watching it a long back on some channel.

Answer 6

My closest guess would be the Large Milkweed Bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus). We call them "s*x bugs" here, since every time we see them, they're always mating!

Pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/selago/2129...

http://www.cirrusimage.com/Bugs/milkweed...

Mating milkweed bugs:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26342901@N0...

http://images.whatsthatbug.com/images/mi...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimbrava/19...

Hope this helps... :-)

Answer 7

Velvet Ant ? not Ant, but it's a wasp, female flies, but male doesn't,their venom is power enough to kill a cow! :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_ant

look at this picture, it is black and red:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Velve...