Red ladybugs and mini cantelopes oh my!

This evening I was out walking in my backyard and saw this bright red ladybug, but as I looked I noticed somthing odd..this tiny critter had NO SPOTS..it was solid bright red.

Then I ventured over to the patio to my potted mini cantelope that is suposed to be a nice container variety. It is doing wonderful with so many blooms on it! I am very impressed so far...but what thrilled me was these tiny cantelopes growing now!

Never saw a solid red ladybug before. Something like albino in bugs? Love that little cantalope. I have tons of blossoms on my Acorn Squash but no squash as yet. I'm hoping for a huge crop this year. 

If I'm not mistaken there are many many species of ladybugs actually, which may be named all according to the number of spots they have and usually those have a pretty consistent number within the species , but then some species may even have the number of spots vary somewhat so some other factor is used in determining what spec es they belong to. I don't think solid red is common, but as for figuring out the species===== perhaps there is a specific one with all solid colored members with no spots.  Of course I'm no ladybug expert, and luckily the one pictured I hope isn't the dreaded Asian ladybug , which has been a real pest around here several years with it's biting habits and eating other stuff besides harmful insects, such as our prized fruit as well!  Nasty things those Asian ones!!

Yes I think there are several spieces of ladybg..I have no idea what one this is but i thought it was very interesting..I have never seen a solid red one here so it cant overly prolific here. I see the red with black spots all the time..this was just so unique:)

In my bug book it looks like a giant lady beetle Anatis lecontei - Giant Lady Beetle

Thanks boo..yes it was very small, much smaller then a regular ladybug..but I dont know if it was full grown yet:)