A former Montana State University student has discovered the rarest ladybug in the United States, according to MSU entomologist Michael Ivie.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 24, 2012 4.4 / 5 (5) 0 |

Having natural habitat in farming areas that supports ladybugs could help increase their abundance in crops where they control pests and help farmers reduce their costs, says a Michigan State University study.

Biology - Ecology

May 11, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Leah Tyrrell wants to make something clear: She does not wear ladybug sweatshirts. She does not carry her belongings in ladybug bags, shelter from the rain beneath a ladybug-shaped umbrella, or take notes with pens decorated ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 30, 2012 4.3 / 5 (3) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nine-spotted ladybug, New York's official state insect, was feared to be extinct in this state until citizen scientists rallied to Cornell's call to help look for it. Several nine-spotted ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 04, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Biology Letters, a page of science fiction comes to life in a real-life zombie scenario between the ladybug and a parasitical wasp called Dinocampus coccinell ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 24, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(AP) -- Besides being a researcher in New York's Hudson River Estuary Program, environmental scientist Chris Bowser leads citizen projects that collect reams of data for other scientists.

Other Sciences - Other

May 08, 2011 3 / 5 (2) 0

A University of Georgia researcher studying invasive ladybugs has developed new models that help explain how these insects have spread so quickly and their potential impacts on native species.

Biology - Ecology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- If your building has 10 false fire alarms one morning, it is human nature to ignore it when it goes off for the 11th time.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 06, 2010 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Clarkson University scientists led by Prof. Igor Sokolov are using atomic force microscopy (AFM) to record sounds emanating from inside living insects like flies, mosquitoes and ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

May 14, 2010 4.1 / 5 (8) 1

Scientists in a South Dakota lab are on a Noah's Ark-like mission to save ladybugs on the brink of extinction.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 06, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

There's a war occurring each day in our backyards - plant versus plant-eating insect versus insect-eating insect. Research by UC Irvine's Kailen Mooney suggests the outcome - of interest to farmers - is a ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2010 4 / 5 (2) 0 |

Are ladybugs being overtaken by wasps? A Université de Montréal entomologist is investigating a type of wasp (Dinocampus coccinellae) present in Quebec that forces ladybugs (Coccinella maculata) ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 17, 2009 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

(AP) -- Pest-control specialist Gene Scholes even gets bugged by them - legions of ladybugs lately swarming his rural Missouri home and other stretches across the country, exploiting gaps in door and window seals for cozier ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 22, 2009 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

(AP) -- A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 04, 2009 4.6 / 5 (5) 0