Scientists try to bring back ladybugs - ABC News
— -- ITHACA, N.Y. -- New York state's official insect, the nine-spotted ladybug, is making a comeback in a fourth-floor laboratory on Cornell University's campus. Once extremely common in New York, the nine-spotted became rare over the last 40 years and was even thought to be extinct, said Leslie Allee, a Cornell entomologist. … But no contribution was more significant than last July when project volunteer Peter Priolo organized a group search in Amagansett on Long Island, N.Y. Priolo spotted...
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