At 10:26 AM 12/20/2004, Leland Hubbell wrote:
>In June 1975, the Ohio legislature declared the common lady-bug,
>officially named the Ladybird Beetle, the state insect.
Unfortunately the common lady-bug that was declared the state insect is not
so common anymore. I fact, I don't remember seeing any number of them
since I was child. Now all I see is the Multicolored Asian lady beetles
which were intruduced by the USDA in 78 and 81 and were possibly imported
from another source as well. Their populations grow to a peak in the fall
(far in excess of the Ladybird Beetle) and become somewhat of a pest.
http://www.ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/multc_asian_ladybeetle.htm
-Tim
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