A helpful nuisance

Sunday, November 14, 2010

In the early 1980s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture claimed to have established the Japanese ladybug into the North American landscape after decades of attempts. Japanese ladybugs eat aphids, which had been causing large crop losses for American pecan and soybean growers.

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