Ladybugs Help New York As Pest Killers

October 21st, 2007 in Biology /
Ladybugs Help New York As Pest Killers (AP)

The fountain and park inside Stuyvesant Town is seen in this Aug. 30, 2006 file photo in New York. Groundskeepers at one of New York's biggest apartment complexes released the red-and-black creatures into the greenery Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, on the sprawling 40-acres of high rises on the East Side to harm and destroy pests infesting the neatly landscaped property. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

(AP) -- It sounds like a horror movie: 720,000 ladybugs on the attack in Manhattan. In this real life story, however, the red-and-black bugs have been unleashed on the 80-acre grounds of one of New York's biggest apartment complexes with a mission: eat pests infesting the neatly landscaped property.

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