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In mid-November 2015, a photograph purportedly showing what resemble common ladybugs and Japanese beetles embedded on the roof of a dog's mouth began circulating via Facebook: Most of the users who shared the above-displayed image on Facebook included a variation of the following message: While we haven't been able to identify who the Somebody is in the above-quoted Facebook post, a message posted by the Hands & Paws group did provide some information about the image's origin: We reached out to Hands & Paws for more information about the image without results, but multiple incidents are on record of beetles embedding in dogs' mouths, such as this one from November 2016: In 2008, Lindsey Derek published an article in the journal Toxicon about the subject: That article also included a photograph of the beetles in the dog's mouth, which closely resembled the image circulated in November 2015:
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