Article: Ensuring the ladybug legacy.(News)

Byline: Mary Esch Associated Press

ITHACA, N.Y. u 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.

John Losey, an entomologist at Cornell University, launched the Lost Ladybug Project last year to try to figure out why once-common native ladybug species had all but disappeared across the country. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, recruits citizen scientists u especially children u to search for ladybugs and send photos of them to Losey and his colleagues.

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