Ladybugs are tiny little bugs that represent good luck. They typically live between several months up to about a year ...

There are many creepy crawlers that we wish we didn't see in our backyards. Blister beetles come to mind. But people are usually happy to see ladybugs. With their vibrant red or orange hues adorned ...

— -- 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 ...

Every autumn, ladybugs (which are really lady beetles) seem to swarm near or even inside some homes. There can be so many of them that they stain walls and make a room smell really bad. Ladybugs have ...

In no instance has a New Jersey Mega Millions winner attributed his windfall to a ladybug. In no New Jersey nursing home has a 113-year-old woman said: "I owe it all to the ladybugs." Despite such ...

In what has become a local rite of spring, ladybugs are flying off the shelves at nurseries and big-box hardware stores across the valley. Plant retailers can't seem to keep the live insects in stock, ...

It’s cold outside, and I’m worried about my ladybugs. Not the ladybugs in the garden. They are hibernating until spring, sleeping blissfully beneath blankets of leaf mulch. This is how ladybugs have ...

Other methods to prevent kudzu bugs in your home, according to Georgia-based pest control company PF Harris, include sealing ...

Last week I wrote about a rather shy but strongly beneficial insect called the twice-stabbed ladybug. A question from a reader caused me to realize that a follow-up column was in order. “Your article ...

At this time of the year, aphids can be a serious problem in the garden. But salvation can arrive in the form of ladybugs. Ladybugs are actually beetles, not bugs. And while they are sometimes called ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Spotting lots of "ladybugs" coming out of cracks and holes in your home after the autumn chill settled in? These are not your typical red seven-spotted friends. The beetles crawling ...