I think Hotrod ate a ladybug...

[Hotrod]

I had Hotrod on top of the curtain rod so he could look out the window. I noticed my cat, Selah was looking at him funny. So I walked up to Hotrod and he had a ladybug wing next to him. So I am worried he ate a dead ladybug. I don't think it was alive because sometimes ladybugs get inside the house during ladybug season, but now love bug season is picking up. So I think it was dead, but not positive. Either way, a little after that when he pooped, it was like a brownish green. He eats a mixture of veggies, pellets, fruit, and seed, so I know his pellets can cause that.... but it is kind of freaking me out. Hotrod is being his normal self though.
Does anybody know if ladybugs can harm parrots? Maybe I am just overthinking this.

 

[Kiwibird]

I think he should be fine. Just continue to watch him, and keep an extra careful eye on his droppings for the next week or two. Parrots do eat bugs in nature, just like any birds and ladybugs are not poisonous to birds as far as I know (or at least, a single insect shouldn't be deadly). Wild bugs can, however, carry parasites a domestic parrot is unable to handle like a wild bird though, thus the reason for keeping an eye on his droppings. My parents birds will eat any bug they can get their beaks on even though they try to stop them:52: The cockatoo once got worms after eating a black house cricket and had to be treated by a vet

 

[PetoftheDay]

Yes, she is correct - the bug itself should do no harm, just a little extra crunchy protein! But watch him anyway, just in case!