Small ladybird like insects

Have any of you noticed the amount of little dark green laydbird like
insects that have invaded us.Does anyone out there know what they are
and no doubt the invasion of these insect will be down to the Icelandic
volcano !!!!

T hese little beetles appear every year raround this time and love to sit on the washings hanging on the line.....nothing to do with the Icelandic volcano....just part of Caithness and quite harmless.:)

I think they are heather beetles. Check out the link below:

http://www.moorlandassociation.org/heather_beetle.asp

Our car and the courtyard are covered in them and the air is thick with them this afternoon.

Noticed alot out at reiss beach the other day, when i returned to the car it had quiet a few on it:D