Garden Pests and Diseases: Someone "pimped my ladybugs", 1 by mikekilhoffer

mikekilhoffer wrote:
I have seen ladybugs, and I have seen the oriental beetles that look like orange ladybugs.....
but up until this year I had never seen a golden ladybug.
It looks like someone gold-plated a ladybug, cloned them a few times and set them upon my sweetpotato vines.
Is this a bug I can just dust for with sevin? Or should I do something else? I am ever patient, and I sat for an hour to observe their behavior.
They land on a leaf, eat a hole in the leaf, then always crawl to the underside and chow down. They never make more than a marble sized hole before
heading to a new leaf. They are not "tortoise bugs", for they have no "shell" (membrane). they just look like shiny 24ct gold ladybugs. My pics are terrible, but I tried 4 times to photo one.