Looking for Ladybugs
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- October
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Also from the Nursery Management and Production Newsletter; ARS is Agricultural Research Service:
“ARS looks for lost ladybugs
USDA’s ARS needs the public’s help looking for once-common ladybug species that are now hard to find. Researchers are asking people to photograph every ladybug possible, and to send the photos to Cornell Univ. so researchers can inventory the insects. The scientists are particularly looking for rare species, such as the nine-spotted, two-spotted and transverse lady beetles. The “Lost Ladybug Project†online allows participants to track and map the ladybug data.”
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
Bill.
The Ladybug Project sounds like a great idea. I’ll put it on my spring calendar, but could you remind us again in the spring? Also, at the site, I discovered Project BudBurst which I will also participate in. Thanks for alert.
Brooke