One of the tactics Union College is using against pests: a release of 140,000 ladybugs, deployed to eat plant-attacking aphids. It's also enlisted praying mantises for the fight. Potential complication: mantises eat ladybugs.
photo: Matt Milless / Union College
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The other problem -- local buildings will now be filled with ladybugs. I went through this at the school where I got my bachelor's, and every night for a month or so every year, we'd have 50 ladybugs flying / crawling around our dorm room. I'd sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to find them crawling in my nostrils.
Enjoy!
... said Eric on May 17, 2013 at 7:57 AM | link
Eric, we had that problem at my school too, except they weren't ladybugs, they were Asian Lady Beetles.
http://www.geology.wisc.edu/courses/g115/projects03/amswenson/AsianLadyBeetle.htm
... said CMaxby on May 17, 2013 at 8:11 AM | link
Hmm...I'm not as up on my entymology as I thought. Perhaps my plague was also Asian Lady Beetles.
... said Eric on May 18, 2013 at 10:46 PM | link
Also, I can't spell. Entomology. If I knew the etymology of 'entomology,' I probably would have gotten it right on the first try.
... said Eric on May 18, 2013 at 10:47 PM | link