1980s Ladybird Query?

[BestZebbie]

Does anyone else remember that in the mid/late 1980s there was a particular type of invasive ladybird that everyone was supposed to kill on sight (possibly a yellow one?). It came up in conversation but Google results have ironically been invaded by the much more recent harlequin ladybird that only arrived this century so I'm not having much luck looking it up.

I thought this was going to be about 1980s Ladybird books which is my specialist subject! But I vaguely remember a rumour going around my school that the yellow ones were poisonous?

Sorry! Google also thought that too.....

And I thought OP was going to write about Ladybird clothes from Woolworth!

Colorado potato beetle ?

This might be it! I was sure it was a ladybird because I remember learning about different types having different spot patterns at the same time, but this looks like a very similar creature, plus it comes with an amazing 1980s public information cartoon:

Interested

On the 1976 summer thread it's all that's mentioned!

I remember it too but can't find any info.

This is about the Harlequins invading and putting our native 2-spot at risk in 2004. Most websites say the Harlequins became established around year 2000 so maybe in the 1980s it was more about the initial sightings and to see where/how quickly they were settling. Harlequins have many different colours/spots including yellow.

www.gwct.org.uk/farming/research/pollinators/do-non-native-harlequin-ladybirds-interfere-with-how-native-species-feed/