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 ...

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. — The nine-spotted ladybug was considered so common, charismatic and crop-friendly that it was adopted as New York's official state insect in 1989. As it turns out, the species may have ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - 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 ...