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Re: National Insect
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Tim Arheit <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 May 2004 23:51:48 -0400
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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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