Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: beetles, 1 by edevenny

edevenny wrote:
We just came from doing yardwork at our rental house in Arlington, and while there we found these beetles all over everything, especially the numerous dried stalks and seedpods of the cleome (tenants apparently know far less about gardening than we thought!) They were all sizes, most were shaped like ladybugs, but these have different markings and some were more umm.... shield shaped? Another pic follows. I think they aren't good, mostly because there were so, so many.
Liz