The lost Ladybug project is a citizen science that relies on the public to scout for native ladybugs, such as the nine spotted received in Ellicottville. Volunteers across the country look for ...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- -- ITHACA, N.Y. -- The nine-spotted ladybug was considered so common, charismatic and crop-friendly that it was adopted in 1989 as New York's official state insect. As it turns out, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - The rare nine-spotted ladybug, subject of a nationwide citizen science project launched after it appeared the insect had gone extinct, has been found in New York state for the first ...

They're spotty and dotty and help suppress pests. But over the past several decades, native ladybug species, such as the nine-spotted ladybug, have become rare in the United States. Researchers want ...

Big batches of black-speckled beetles - species native to North America - have bugged out, flown away, or died off. Once common, several species of the hard-shelled insects with delicate wings are ...

Every autumn, ladybugs (which are really lady beetles) seem to swarm near or even inside some homes. There can be so many of them that they stain walls and make a room smell really bad. Ladybugs have ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — A year after they started a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and ...

South Dakota State University entomologist Mike Catangui and USDA research entomologist Louis Hesler are calling South Dakota elementary children to become junior biologists as they search for rare ...