When I was a kid, visiting my grandmother, my cousin picked up a lady bug and just kind of put it in her hand.  I thought all bugs were evil and I wasn’t about to touch it.  She told me that lady bugs were just fine to touch and she put it into my hand.  To my surprise, I was not struck dead immediately by the poisonous venom of the lady bug.  Since then I’ve always kind of played with lady bugs when I see them.  Until they escape: