When a ladybug feels threatened, it behaves very like a turtle. It tucks its legs under its shiny red carapace and lowers it to the surface. No gap is left when it clamps itself down. Its grip becomes so strong that it is not easy to budge it even from a smooth surface. At the same time, it tucks its head in, together with its feelers, so that the carapace becomes impenetrable from all sides. In the safety of cover, it waits for the danger to pass. In the meanwhile, the two black spots, one on each half of the carapace that protects the wings, become very like a pair of eyes. If you imagine yourself quite a bit smaller, perhaps only a bit bigger than the ladybug you are so carefully observing, those eyes fix you with a frightening stare. And you always thought that those dots were nothing if not cuteness itself.