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Researchers delve into rare ladybugs

In N.Y. lab, they're studying why once-common varieties are now scarce

Posted: September 6, 2009 at 5:36 a.m.

A year after they started a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.

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