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Dying, lacking food or water, playing dead and suffering injury are reasons why ladybugs turn over onto their shells. A nervous system compromised by decline, dehydration, disease, starvation or wounds makes it difficult if not impossible for a ladybug to maintain a typical ambulatory position with legs on the group and shell in the air. Ladybugs turn out to be competitive with opossums in playing dead by falling onto or rolling onto their shell and stiffening their legs.

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