I keep finding these bugs in my garden... no idea what they are! Help?

Question

This is a small black bug about 5mm long with 6 legs on its thorax, no visible antennae, with small bristles on its thorax and abdomen and a thin stripe of orange down each side of its abdomen... I've tried looking it up on various bug identification keys with no luck... Any ideas? Thanks!

- Ani

Answer 1

Would help to know where you are located.

Answer 2

Is it a lightning bug (firefly)?

http://iris.biosci.ohio-state.edu/projec...

Answer 3

any chance of a photo?

Answer 4

Email it to me and I will check it out...

Ok put it in your scanner with a couple of sheets of paper over the top and you will get a great image of it..

Nothing like a image to identify a bug

Answer 5

Sounds a bit like a Ladybird larva.