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Lost ladybugs found in Boulder
- A nine-spoted ladybug in a lab at Cornell in Inthaca, N.Y. | AP Photo/Cornell University Ellen Woods
Scientist searching for native nine-spot ladybugs, whose number have been dwindling since the reintroduction of ladybugs from Euopre, have found some of the coveted nine-spots in Boulder.
Researchers in New York, who are trying to breed the bugs to pump up their numbers, got an overnight shipment of 13 Boulder bugs from a 40-year-old woman who was visiting the Front Range from Illinois.
From a weekend story by the Associated Press:
John Losey, an entomologist at Cornell University, launched the Lost Ladybug Project last year to try to figure out why once-common native ladybug species had all but disappeared across the country. The project, funded by the National Science Foundation, recruits citizen scientists — especially children — to search for ladybugs and send photos of them to Losey and his colleagues.
Of particular interest are the nine-spotted, two-spotted and transverse ladybugs, three native species that have declined dramatically in the last decade, possibly because of the release of non-native species to control crop pests.
“Between 1999 and last year when we started the program, less than 10 individuals of the nine-spot were collected anywhere in the country,” Losey said. “That used to be the most dominant species across the U.S. and Canada.”
Read the full story here, or learn about Boulder’s big buggy summer at DailyCamera.com.
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