There are nearly 5,000 kinds of ladybugs; 400 types live in North America. Ladybugs taste bad. Their bright color warns birds and other predators to stay away. They defend themselveswith a bitter, ...

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 ...

“Ladybug, ladybug fly away home; your house is on fire and your children are gone …” It was a beautiful, warm, sunny morning as I opened my French doors and spied a ladybug resting on the doorsill.

“Ladybug, ladybug fly away home …” Whoops, she did! And her home is also my home and your home. With spring here, she’s awakening and coming indoors. Ladybugs are such lovable creatures that it’s hard ...

No, it’s not the war of the worlds, and no, the Orioles aren’t back in first place. You know what we are talking about: dead ladybugs on St. Paul Street. Yes, dead ladybugs. Polka-dotted Volkswagen ...

Students at Chesterbrook Academy Preschool got a jump on Earth Day celebrations Friday with a ladybug launch at their Manheim Township school. Earth Day was Sunday, but students gathered a few days ...

Reports Wicki-Yah: “Granddaughter Emma, who is now officially ‘2 on my birthday,’ and I were in the ‘way back’ seat in her parents’ SUV when she said: ‘Nama, tell me the ladybug song.’ My daughter ...

A. The Asian ladybug, whichwas introduced into this country as a control for aphids, scale and other pests, is the one that homeowners often find congregating on the south or west side of their homes ...

Ladybugs are actually beetles, not bugs. And,while they are sometimes called ladybirds or ladybeetles, of course they are not all female. They belong to the class Insecta and are members of the ...

“Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home; your house is on fire and your children are gone…” It was a beautiful, warm, sunny morning as I opened my French doors and spied a ladybug resting on the doorsill.

There's a Last Picture Show quality to Mary Rohde Scudday's Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home. Like Larry McMurtry’s unsentimental jab at small-town Texas life that emerged in 1966 as a novel and in ...