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Article: LADYBUG, LADYBUG PLEASE FLY AWAY HOME.(Brief Article)
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- Country Living
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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What can you do if you find your home besieged by one of the garden's most beneficial bugs?
When I was a little girl, I was fascinated by ladybugs. In a shady glen of fragrant, towering lilac bushes, a virtual ladybug playland existed right in my own backyard. I would sit for hours on the cool ground just watching them. Hidden from view, the ladybugs crawled from branches to shiny leaves, intent on completing their unspoken tasks. I would take a leaf and nudge a ladybug to step onto it and then transfer the ladybug to another leaf. I never minded when one walked across my arm--it actually tickled. Not being partial to most insects, I was pleased I had found one ...
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... ... from people about those darn ladybugs. "This happens every fall ... Heisdorffer, Daviess County Cooperative Extension Service's agent for horticulture ... said. "What they're (ladybugs) doing now is looking for ... scientific evidence to prove that ladybugs saved his okra, Ford said ...
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